Transfer-appropriate processing is a type of state-dependent memory showing that memory performance depends not only on the depth of processing at study, the principle that associating meaning with information strengthens memory, but on the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved.
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Core ClaimTransfer-appropriate processing is a type of state-dependent memory showing that memory performance depends not only on the depth of processing at study, but on the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved, with memory being best when the processes engaged in during encoding match those engaged in during retrieval. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Transfer-Appropriate Processing
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Transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) is a type of state-dependent memory specifically showing that memory performance is not only determined by the depth of processing (where associating meaning with information strengthens memory; see levels-of-processing effect), but by the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved.
Body text, sentence citing the founding study
Morris and associates (1977)
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