The Power of Optimal Encoding: Distinctiveness and Differentiation Defeat Directed Forgetting

The goal of this dissertation is to examine circumstances that encourage optimal encoding in memory. To accomplish this, several encoding manipulations were examined in the context of intentional forgetting. The typically robust item method directed forgetting effect is attributed to selective rehea...

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Main Author: Hourihan, Kathleen Laura
Language:en
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3810