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Transfer-appropriate processing

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 (where associating meaning with information strengthens memory; see levels-of-processing effect), but by the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved.

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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 (where associating meaning with information strengthens memory; see levels-of-processing effect), but by the relationship between how information is initially encoded and how it is later retrieved.

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