Practise AP Psychology 2.5.A by identifying short-term memory capacity and explaining how elaborative rehearsal uses meaningful associations to support retention.
Abram recently graduated from high school and began his first year at a four-year university. Explain with an example how experiencing each of the following in the past may affect Abram's ability to succeed in college.
Abram's first year was very difficult, and he found that he was not as successful as he would have liked. Explain with an example how each of the following may help Abram be more successful in the future.
Elaborative rehearsal
Point 5: Elaborative rehearsal.
To earn this point the student must indicate linking to-be-remembered material with other information (or making the information meaningful) and a specific positive outcome that would result from that process.
The student's response must go beyond mentioning only non-elaborative strategies such as repeating, rehearsing, or memorizing.
Note:
Score examples of effortful processing, such as using imagery, creating mnemonics, building associations among concepts, using semantic processing, and imagining personal examples, as long as a specific positive outcome is also addressed within the context of the question.
Examples:
Score "Abram invented a story relating concepts in his history class to his trip to Kansas City, and he did better on his test."
Score "Abram used deep processing to benefit from studying course material."