Elaborative rehearsal involves a. thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory b. sleeping immediately after learning new information to allow your mind to process it c. organizing information into manageable bits or chunks d. immediately applying new information to a practical problem

The correct option is (A).

Further explanation:

Elaborative rehearsal involves thinking about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory. Elaborative rehearsal is a method of encoding or storing information which short-term memory store ideas and thoughts and pass these thoughts and ideas to long-term memory.

ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL  

Elaborative rehearsal is a method to encode information. It involves making information meaningful by relating to either in a personal way or relating it to prior knowledge by passing information from short-term memory into the long term memory.

There are two types of memory rehearsals, which are as follow:

1. Elaborative rehearsal

2. Maintenance rehearsal

Maintenance rehearsal maintains the new information temporarily in the individual’s short-term memory and it works repeatedly. When an individual doesn’t want to forget particular information then he says it repeatedly so that he will not forget it. While Elobartive rehearsal is an encoding method to facilitate information in an individual’s long term memory by acquiring the brain of an individual to process it properly.

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Answer details:

Grade: High School

Subject: Social Studies

Topic: Memory Rehearsal  

Keywords: memory rehearsal, elaborative rehearsal, maintenance rehearsal, information, memory, knowledge, encoding, method