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Psychological phenomenon
The generation effect is a psychological phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read. Researchers have struggled to fully explain why generated information is better recalled than read information, as no single explanation has been comprehensive. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Generation effectA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool use on students' computational thinking skills, programming self-efficacy and motivationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Brave New WorldThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Reciprocal developmental pathways for the generation of pathogenic effector TH17 and regulatory T cellsCited 5,960 times
- Go sideways: Encoding specificity principleA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Levels of processing modelA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The tendency to better remember information if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Reciprocal developmental pathways for the generation of pathogenic effector TH17 and regulatory T cells
The generation effect: A meta-analytic review
The worked example effect, the generation effect, and element interactivity.
The effect of immigrant generation on smoking
Retrieval mode distinguishes the testing effect from the generation effect
The Generation Effect
The generation effect when generation fails
Mood and the generation effect
🆕 Influential since 2022
The effect of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool use on students' computational thinking skills, programming self-efficacy and motivation
glmm.hp: an R package for computing individual effect of predictors in generalized linear mixed models
Spray power generation based on triboelectric effect
Generation of Terahertz Radiation via the Transverse Thermoelectric Effect
Photo-plasmonic effect as the hot electron generation mechanism
📚 Books worth reading
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley · 1932
Watership DownRichard Adams · 1972
Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond · 1997
State of FearMichael Crichton · 2004
The Lathe of HeavenUrsula K. Le Guin · 1971
EcstacyIrvine Welsh · 1996
Critical thinkingRichard W. Paul, Linda Elder · 1990
The sense of wonderRachel Carson · 1956
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🔗 Related topics
- Encoding specificity principle The encoding specificity principle is the general principle that matching the encoding contexts of information at recall assists in the retrieval of episodic…
- Levels of processing model The levels of processing model, created by Fergus I. M. Craik and Robert S. Lockhart in 1972, describes memory recall of stimuli as a function of the depth…
- Retrieval-induced forgetting Retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) is a memory phenomenon where remembering causes forgetting of other information in memory. The phenomenon was first…
- Spacing effect The spacing effect demonstrates that learning is more effective when study sessions are spaced out. This effect shows that more information is encoded…
- Context-dependent memory In psychology, context-dependent memory is the improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are…
- Encoding (memory) Memory has the ability to encode, store and recall information. Memories give an organism the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as…
- Picture superiority effect The picture superiority effect refers to the phenomenon in which pictures and images are more likely to be remembered than words. This effect has been…
- Recall (memory) Recall in human memory refers to the mental process of retrieving information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core…