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Peer reviewedThieman, Thomas J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
The encoding specificity principle asserts that a retrieval cue will be effective if, and only if, the to-be-remembered item was specifically encoded with respect to that cue during input. Describes a classroom experiment that provides an opportunity to demonstrate the encoding specificity phenomenon, note its limitations, and discuss its cause…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cues, Educational Experiments, Higher Education
