ABSTRACT
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In order to communicate clearly, you need to have some knowledge about your audience, for instance, their background knowledge and reason for the communication.
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Analogies usually hinder the communication process because they always involve comparing two things that are fundamentally different.
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The problem in deciding whether “assisted suicide” is murder depends on the way the word “murder” is defined.
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The way we think influences the words we use to express our thoughts; the reverse situation, that is the idea that the words we use can influence how we think, is blatantly wrong.
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The use of prototypes in thinking is usually a deliberate and conscious strategy to help us think creatively.
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Judgments and evaluations about any situation often depend more on the context than on the actual event that is being judged.
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A good way to improve comprehension is to develop the habit of asking and answering thoughtful questions about the material you are learning.
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A linear arrangement of facts is too simple an arrangement to be useful when learning new material.
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Students who were identified as “at risk” of failing could only improve in their comprehension and memory by reading the material that was to be learned several times.
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Graphic organizers aid comprehension because they force the learner to attend to and identify the relationships among concepts.
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