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Okay, so i see that you need help with this, and it wants to know what your advice is.
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You have marlene.
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Let me just insert this.
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Marlene is a very conscientious, capable 30 -year -old student who has quit her job as a receptionist.
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So she quit her job as a receptionist in a doctor's office to work on her degree in nursing.
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She attends class every day.
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Marlene keeps up with her reading assignments in homework and listens carefully in class.
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She uses the planner to make sure she has plenty of time set aside to study for tests.
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The night before a test, marlene re -reads the chapters in the text and looks over any review sheet the professor may have given.
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She repeats definitions and facts she thinks will be on the test over and over.
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However, marlene is very frustrated after failing her first history and psychology tests and barely passing her biology tests.
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She is beginning to think she may have made a mistake in her decision to attend college using what you know about memory works what advice can you give marlene so it sounds like she's putting in a lot of hard work but there may be some missteps in her study strategies that are preventing her from performing as well as she hopes so missteps in her study strategies performance.
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Based on what we know about how the memory works, here are some pieces of advice that can help her improve her approach.
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So the first one is active learning over passive repetition.
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Rereading and repeating definitions is often a passive strategy.
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While repetition can be helpful to some extent, active learning tends to be much more effective.
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Instead of just repeating facts, marlene should try to actively engage with material.
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Some techniques that might help include summarizing the material.
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After reading a section, she could try to summarize it in her own words, focus on key concepts and relationships between ideas.
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This will help her organized material and deepen her understanding.
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She could also teach it to someone else...