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What is the nature of encoding specificity?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is the recency effect?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

How items are encoded has a strong effect both on how, and on how well, items are retrieved. This relationship is called encoding specificitywhat is recalled depends on what is encoded.

Answer to Question 2

The recency effect refers to superior recall of words at and near the end of a list.



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