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Questions

1. What is your uncle’s name? _______________________
2. What is your price limit on the two gifts? ____________
3. What items did you already have at
home?__________________________________________
4. What is the name of the perfume you bought your
niece? __________________________________________
5. Where did you have lunch? _______________________
6. What gifts are you giving to your uncle?____________
________________________________________________
7. What did you find at the sporting goods store? ______
________________________________________________
8. What did you buy for Edward? ____________________
________________________________________________
9. What was your great bargain? _____________________
________________________________________________
10. Is Edward your cousin? ___________________________

Check your answers in “Solutions to Exercises and Games.”
Compare your results with those of your preassessment.

• Did you improve over the information-processing pre-
assessment?
• How did your scores compare?
• How many of the new techniques did you employ?

The more of these techniques you can use, the better
your performance will be on problems like this.
Continue to practice these techniques. Find a way to
D practice one technique each day. Check our Web site daily
(www.mentalagility.com) to see what helpful hint we
can give you that day regarding a learning technique or
strategy.
This chapter, believe it or not, has just touched the tip of
the iceberg (visual imagery) regarding the use of information-