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Essay / Comparison of information processing and operant conditioning
For example, when students are just learning an unfamiliar topic, they need to develop strategies that will help them convert the information into something they can easily store, which they can refer to precisely and which they can access whenever they want. (Miller, 2011). Since students have different ways of accomplishing these tasks, each strategy will be unique. The way each student stores information is also related to their age, for example, the common strategy used by 7 year olds is mnemonics, which is when they repeat information that they have been taught and which help to improve their memory. By the time they reach adolescence, students are now able to store information by expanding on what they already know as they have greater knowledge of the world (Snowman & McCown,