Practice Multiple Choice Test Feedback: Question 10

You would study for a multiple choice test using strategies that would enhance recognition under which of the following conditions?
Check all correct options.

(a) The alternatives are identical (word-for-word) to what you study, rather than paraphrased
(b) The alternatives require higher rather than lower levels of learning
(c) The alternatives are always quite dissimilar
(d) You do not get confused by incorrect information

All alternatives are correct except (b).

Level of learning: Application, perhaps Analysis. This question requires you to "read between the lines." You need to realize that "recognition" is being implicitly being contrasted with "recall," the preferable study strategy. Clearly, (b) is incorrect because the results of higher levels of thinking are likely to be paraphrased, thus eliminating the possibility of recognition.

Go back to test.