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Retention (Psychology)

Scope Note: 
That aspect of memory that involves either short- or long-term holding of information (Note: For the concept of "retention of personnel, teachers, students, etc.," see such Descriptors as "Employment Practices," "Teacher Persistence," and "School Holding Power")
Category: Learning and Perception
Broader Terms
Memory
Narrower Terms
N/A
Use this term instead of
Retention (1966 1980)
Retention Studies (1966 1980)
Related Terms
Advance Organizers
Cues
Familiarity
Habituation
Interference (Learning)
Language Skill Attrition
Mediation Theory
Memorization
Mnemonics
Primacy Effect
Recall (Psychology)
Recognition (Psychology)
Redundancy
Rote Learning
Schemata (Cognition)
Visualization
Added to ERIC: 3/5/1980