For example, when students are learning an unfamiliar topic, they need to develop strategies that help convert the information into something they can easily store and accurately refer to and refer to. can access whenever they want (Miller, 2011). Because students have different ways of accomplishing these tasks, each strategy will be unique. The way each student memorizes information is also linked to their age, for example, the common strategy used by 7 year old children is mnemonics, which is when they repeat the information taught to them which helps improve their memory. By the time they reach adolescence, students are now able to store information by processing what they already know as they have greater knowledge about the world (Snowman & McCown,