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process > cognitive process > memory process > retrieval > generative retrieval

Preferred term

generative retrieval  

Definition

  • "a long, protracted retrieval process where one exerts considerable effort to retrieve a past experience [...] involving the use of elaborate, conscious search strategies" (Mace et al., 2021, p. 2).

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Conway, M. A., & Pleydell-Pearce, C. W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological Review, 107(2), 261–288. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295X.107.2.261

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

  • • Mace, J. H., Petersen, E. P., & Kruchten, E. A. (2021). Elucidating the mental processes underlying the direct retrieval of autobiographical memories. Consciousness and Cognition, 94, 103190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103190

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-CB1B8THR-F

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