Stephen Chew: A Brief Summary

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In a brief video created by Samford University, psychology professor Stephen Chew speaks to his viewers about effective ways to study in college and what students should know about the way people learn. Chew starts off by referring to a psychology experiment conducted by Thomas Hyde and James Jenkins from 1969. Hyde and Jenkings carried out a study that consisted of 5 groups who were asked to memorize a list of twenty four words. Groups one and two were in the intentional condition, meaning that they knew ahead of time that they would be asked to recall the list of words later on. Groups three and four were in the incidental condition, meaning that they did not know they would have to recall the words. Group one (intentional) and group three

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