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FRQ PRACTICE #1You should present a cogent argument based on your critical analysis of the questions posed, using appropriate psychological terminology. It is not enough to answer a question by merely listing facts.David is a sophomore in high school and is studying for his United States history exam, in which he must recall all of the battles in the American Revolutionary War. At first, he begins by just trying to group all of the facts associated with each battle into his memory. When he realizes he is forgetting some battles, he begins repeatedly associating the events that occurred in each battle with the place where the battle occurred. He finds he remembers the battles more readily this way, but he is still having a hard time remembering all the facts associated with each battle. Because he continues to think this is the best way to approach learning, he continues to study in this manner. After several bad grades, he realizes that his studying technique is not working, so he asks a friend who is doing better at remembering everything how she is studying. She said she is making up stories about each battle and how each battle is connected with other battles. David tries this method and finds it was much more effective for him.Explain how each of the following concepts relates to this scenario.MetacognitionMethod of lociDeep processingRehearsalElaborationChunkingMental set

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The meta cognition process takes place in this method through the ability to come up with his own stories relating to each battle. By creating stories, he is more likely to remember them, as they were created in a way that his brain would most understand. His creation of these stories force him to visualize them, which utilizes the method of loci. Visualizing these stories gives meaning to the words his lessons have taught him, enabling deep processing. The more he runs through these stories, the more rehearsal, or repetition, takes place, and the longer he will remember these battles. Through visualization, he is adding detail to these battles while still keeping the main ideas of these battles intact, which is called elaboration, and will help David better remember. He is chunking when he connects all the battles together by discovering how they are all related. He will then create a mental set, in which he is able to see how mistakes were made and learned from in each battle, and why certain tactics were used as the Revolutionary war ensued. This will even help him later in his studies and through the rest of his life.

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