CHAPTER 19Rehearsing Information
When we hear the term rehearsal, we typically think of strategies that involve continually repeating information. For example, if you want to remember a person's name, you might repeat it over and over again to yourself until you have stored it in your short-term memory and can retrieve it immediately. If you have used this approach, however, you know that it is still fairly easy to forget that name, even after this “maintenance” rehearsal effort. That shows us that even with purposeful rehearsal effort, information can fade from short-term memory before it is stored in long-term memory.
There is also a second kind of rehearsal, however, called elaboration. This form of rehearsal involves associating new information ...
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