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A nurse is trying to decrease the rate of falls on the unit. After reviewing the literature, a strategy is implemented on the unit. After 3 months, the nurse finds that the falls have decreased. Which process did the nurse institute?
Sensory Memory
The shortest-term element of memory, which allows retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.
Primacy and Recency Effects
Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.
Memory
The cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information.
Retrieval
The process of accessing and bringing into conscious awareness information stored in memory.
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