Creating material yourself, instead of passively receiving improving learning and retention.

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The process of acquiring information and sending it to long term memory (WM to LTM).

Encoding

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Encoding (memory) is better when relating words/events to yourself.

Self-reference effect

Generation effect

information is encoded with considerations to  the context it was presented in.

encoding specificity

Retrieval performance is better when the type of processing involved in encoding is incorporated at retrieval.

Transfer-appropriate processing

The process of memory going from an unstable state to a more stable, permanent one. 

Memory Consolidation

A key factor that enhances memory encoding is the meaningfulness of the information. Information that is understood and has significance is recalled more easily than information that is not meaningful. For example, a simple sentence is more likely to be remembered if its meaning is processed.

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