Learning does not happen passively. It is an activity which a person does.
It is a task which can be attempted in various of ways, some of which are 【M1】 ______ more appropriate than others. When the material to be learned is 【M2】 ______
a brief and simple kind which is familiar with the person and of intense 【M3】 ______
interest to him, effective learning usually proceeds automatically.
In the first place, the person at once relates the material to other
material which has already securely learned. Subsequently, the relevance 【M4】 ______
of the newly learned material to his interests assures its being 【M5】 ______
recalled on many occasions; and one repetition minimizes 【M6】 ______
the likelihood of remembering. Furthermore, the subsequent use 【M7】 ______
of the new material is likely to take place in a variety of contexts
and, so, the material becomes related to a narrower range of other material. 【M8】 ______
Because of all this, the material is rapidly learned, long retained,
and recalled with increasingly readiness in a variety of 【M9】 ______
contexts. Without really trying, the person had fulfilled a 【M10】 ______
few important conditions of effective learning.
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