Students' prior knowledge about a topic often influences their ability to learn something new about that topic. Explain how students' prior knowledge is involved in each of the following long-term memory storage processes:
a. Elaboration
b. Organization
c. Visual imagery
Answers to the separate parts of the question are as follows:
a. Elaboration involves expanding on new information
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