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All right, so this question is asking, when creating a presentation, many public speaking instructors will tell you to develop a strong opening or attention getter to your presentation as well as a good summary and finish.
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What aspect of memory best explains these suggestions? a, parallel distributed processing model of memory.
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B, chunking, c, elaborative rehearsal theory, or d, serial position effect.
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All right.
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So when approaching this problem, i think it's best to understand the idea in which these answer choices truly help one's memory in the context that we're put in.
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Essentially, we're thinking about how these memory tactics are applied in this case that we're given in an audience -type setting.
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I think that would really help in getting to the right answer.
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And i'll explain this more as we go further.
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But first i'm going to start off with the parallel distributed processing model of memory, which is a mouthful.
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And basically it's this model that is more on the neuropsychology side, and it explains how our brain's nerves and its pathways are essentially fixed.
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However, we can, by strengthening the connections between these nerves at nodes, we can better remember things.
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And this idea is basically following connectionism in that by being exposed to material more often, the stronger our nodes become because of the greater connections we will build between those nodes.
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And that induces, or i should say, in turn, that's the word i was looking for.
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In turn makes our memory stronger, the more we are exposed to the material at hand.
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So what this mouthful of an answer option is basically getting at is the more exposed you are to what you're trying to remember, then the more likely you are to remember it because of the stronger neural connections made.
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So applying this back to the question at hand, we're talking about having a strong opening and a strong finish.
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However, this isn't implying that it's the same idea.
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Of course, when you're introducing something, it's like it's the first thought, but it's not going to be the same idea or approached in the same way or conveyed in the same way as it is in your conclusion.
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So while you're basically getting that idea that you're introducing some ideas twice, it's not what's exactly supported by the pdp in that had this said, maybe repeating the, repeating a specific words or repeating certain materials or repeating certain sources would help remember, the audience remember certain aspects or really getting at emphasizing the opening and the closing or the beginning and the ending of a good speech.
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And that's not really what the pdp is or doesn't really align with that sort of aspect of memory.
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So because of that, it can be eliminated.
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Second, we have chunking.
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And chunking is a memory technique that you probably are utilizing without even knowing in that chunking when we're trying to remember things is basically when we break it down and to learn it in smaller pieces and then integrate it together to learn it as a whole.
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And that's basically chunking...