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Encoding specificity

8 years 8 months ago #519 by Dorina Grossu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_specificity_principle

" states that memory is most effective when information available at encoding is also present at retrieval. The principle explains why a subject is able to recall a target word as part of an unrelated word pair at retrieval with much more accuracy when prompted with the unrelated word than if presented with a semantically related word that was not available during encoding"

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