Instructions:
Select an information-based program on television or the radio approved by your teacher. (Public television or radio talk shows offer numerous selections.)

Watch or listen to fifteen minutes of programming while relaxing on your bed, a couch, or the floor. Feel free to play music in the background or work on other activities. Then, for the next fifteen minutes, eliminate distractions and focus intently on the program. After the entire thirty minutes is up, write down the differences between the strategies you used during the first fifteen-minute segment and the second fifteen-minute segment. Then give answers for the following questions:

What was different in your behavior during each fifteen-minute segment?
Did you change your posture in the second fifteen minutes? How?
Which of the four strategies did you use in the first segment? The second segment?
How did the differences in approach to listening affect how much you remember from each segment?