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Environmental Context
- Adapting behavior to fit the environment
- Adapting the environment to fit one's needs
- Selecting an environment conducive to success
Prior Experience
- Dealing with a new situation by drawing on past experience
- Dealing with a familiar situation quickly and efficiently
Cognitive Processes
- Interpreting new situations in useful ways
- Sustaining concentration on a task
- Separating important information from irrelevant details
- Identifying effective problem-solving strategies
- Finding relationships among seemingly different ideas
- Making effective use of feedback
- Applying other cognitive and metacognitive processes as well
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Excerpt from Child Development and Education, by T.M McDevitt, J.E. Ormrod, 2007 edition, p. 281.
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