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Explain an individuals use of elaborative rehearsal in human memory. Kevin wants to remember the words cat, ribbon, car, and hamburger. Instead of repeating the words over and over to himself, he uses__________to create a story about how a cat wearing a ribbon dashed under a car to snack on a fallen hamburger.

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Semantic encoding

Step-by-step explanation:

Kevin wants to remember the words cat, ribbon, car, and hamburger. Instead of repeating the words over and over to himself, he SEMANTIC ENCODING create a story about how a cat wearing a ribbon dashed under a car to snack on a fallen hamburger.

Semantic encoding is a specific type of encoding in which the meaning of something (a word, phrase, picture, event, whatever) is encoded as opposed to the sound or vision of it.

According to research, we have better memory for things we associate meaning to and store using semantic encoding.

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