To Remember a List of Unrelated Words in Order ("Dog

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Essay

To remember a list of unrelated words in order ("dog," "truck," "store," "eggs," "blue," "bush," "park," "dentist," "house"), you connect them by saying, "The dog jumped in the truck and rode to the store with his master to get some eggs that they dyed blue and hid in a bush at the park and were found by the dentist , who sent them back to their house ." You are using the mnemonic method known as forming a(n)__________.

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Definitions:

Encoding Specificity

A principle stating that the recall of information is improved when the conditions during retrieval are similar to the conditions during encoding.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or prompts that help in the recall of information stored in memory.

Infant Amnesia

The phenomenon in which older children and adults are unable to recall memories from the first few years of life, theorized to be due to the development of the hippocampus and other memory-related brain structures.

Explicit Memory Tests

Assessments that measure the recall of specific information, requiring conscious effort to retrieve memories.