While studying for a test, imagine that you focused a great deal of attention on the meaning of the information and attempted to relate it to examples and concepts that you are already familiar with. Your studying would best be considered an example of
A)maintenance rehearsal
B)chunking
C)elaborative rehearsal
D)automatic processing

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Elaborative rehearsal involves deeply processing the content by focusing on its meaning and relating it to other things you know, which enhances memory retention. This is opposed to maintenance rehearsal, which involves simply repeating the information to oneself without deeper processing. Chunking is a method of organizing information into manageable units, and automatic processing involves unconscious encoding of incidental information.

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