Tessa is in her first year at Carleton University and is trying to incorporate what she has learned about memory in her psychology class when she studies for her exams. Tessa has a biology midterm next week and is very stressed out about it. To prepare, Tessa has compiled a list with all the terms and definitions she needs to learn for her midterm.
-Tessa has a particularly hard time remembering the terms "intron" and "exon".To solve her problem she remembers the words "intern" and "exit" instead.Which method did Tessa use to remember the two original terms

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Tessa used the keyword method to remember the terms "intron" and "exon" by creating a connection between the words "intern" and "exit". The keyword method is a mnemonic device that links a keyword or visual image to the information to be remembered, making it easier to recall later on.

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