Two things contribute to air pollution that can cause an air quality alert: 1  Ground-Level Ozone â High-levels of ground-level ozone are frequently the cause of air quality alerts. Ground-level ozone is created by pollutants such as car exhaust and industrial fumes mixing with oxygen.
Accordingly, working memory has come to be viewed as a flexible system that both maintains current information while supporting the simultaneous execution of higher cognitive functions. âHigher cognitive functionsâ (such as reasoning, comprehension, and learning) are the hallmark of contemporary intelligence test batteries, and form common colloquial descriptions of âintelligenceâ.
Students' attention must be engaged before the new information can be perceived, encoded, and patterned. Novelty, humor, and surprise in lessons expedite students' attentive focus, and the use of these strategies results in more successful encoding of data into the memory circuits (Koutstaal et al., 1997).