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chads108

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on: Jun 20, 2018
What is the nature of encoding specificity?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

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


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
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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