Tessa Is in Her First Year at Carleton University and Is

question 6

Multiple Choice

Tessa is in her first year at Carleton University and is trying to incorporate what she has learned about memory in her psychology class when she studies for her exams. Tessa has a biology midterm next week and is very stressed out about it. To prepare, Tessa has compiled a list with all the terms and definitions she needs to learn for her midterm.
-Tessa has a particularly hard time remembering the terms "intron" and "exon".To solve her problem she remembers the words "intern" and "exit" instead.Which method did Tessa use to remember the two original terms

• A) The link method
• B) The method of loci
• C) The keyword method
• D) The method of acrostics

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Definitions:

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon occurring within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist known for his pioneering work on memory and the forgetting curve.

Nonsense Syllables

Meaningless sets of two or three letters that are used in memory and learning experiments to study the learning process.

Memory

The mental ability that allows for the keeping, maintaining, and recovering of information throughout time.