Son and Metcalfe (2000) gave participants several short passages of text to study and told them to master all of them.The topics varied-some were about the use of bacteria in making beer whereas others were about Shakespeare's difficulties getting his first plays produced.Son and Metcalfe found that when participants had limited time, they:
A)concentrated on the easiest items to ensure that they would remember some materials.
B)concentrated on the most difficult items because the JOLs were the highest for those items.
C)concentrated their study on those items for which they had experienced TOTs for.
D)concentrated on the passage about beer, as they were college students after all.

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When participants had limited time, they tended to concentrate on the easiest items to ensure that they would remember some materials. This is a strategy called the "minimum threshold strategy" where learners aim to achieve a certain level of performance by investing effort selectively in the easiest items.

Son and Metcalfe (2000) Gave Participants Several Short Passages of Text