By Alexis Cole
Have you ever studied for a test but then when the time came to actually take the test you completely blanked? Many factors play a role in how well our memory works in different circumstances. One way you can try to improve your memory when studying for school is to use the encoding specificity principle. The encoding specificity principle is the idea that when we learn information we are processing both the information and the environment in which we learned it so we have better recall of that information when we are trying to remember it in an environment similar to the one we learned the information in (1). If we apply this concept to school we see that it is important to study for exams in an environment similar to the environment we will be in when we take the exam.
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