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Elaborative Rehearsal
Elaborative rehearsal is a way of encoding to-be-remembered materials.
During it one pays attention to what the materials mean and how they are related to each other or to other things in the surroundings, or to other things one already knows.
An example of elaborative reharsal is making a semantic decision (e.g. category membership) about words to be remembered.
Elaborative rehearsal is often contrasted with maintenance rehearsal.
Elaborative rehearsal results in better recall than the maintenance rehearsal does.
E.g., people recall more words that they had to make a category decision about than words that they had to make a rhyme decision about (rhyme decisions simply require you to repeat the word and attend to its form, not its meaning).
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