When Sarah relates her own life experiences to what she is learning in her psychology class, it will be easier for her to recall the information on an exam. Sarah is engaging in

a. proactive encoding.
b. elaborative processing.
c. chunking or recoding.
d. maintenance rehearsal.


B

Psychology

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