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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, but by the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved. Wikipedia →

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  4. Read the landmark paper: Levels of processing versus transfer appropriate processingCited 1,504 times
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