Rehearsing something without any attempt to make connections or find meaning (i.e. trying to remember a phone number by repeating it over and over again).

Maintenance rehearsal

Rehearsing something with some sort of meaning in mind (i.e. trying to remember a phone number by realizing that the last four digits are the year you were born and the first three are your cousins area code).

elaborative rehearsal 

- maintenance rehearsal
- elaborative rehearsal

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When repeating a stimulus over and over again, you are retaining it into short-term memory.

Rehearsal

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


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Controls rehearsal which has the ability to keep auditory and verbal information in short term memory for extended periods of time.

articulatory rehearsal process

Types of rehearsal

We remember significant events better not because of any special process/mechanism, but just because they are rehearsed more often.

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