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  2. Elaborative encoding - Wikipedia

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    Elaborative encoding is a mnemonic system that uses some form of elaboration, such as an emotional cue, to assist in the retention of memories and knowledge. [1] In this system one attaches an additional piece of information to a memory task which makes it easier to recall.

  3. Rhetorical operations - Wikipedia

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    It included elaboration, emphasis, and copiousness of style." [ 20 ] The message and understanding of amplification seem blurry to many students. [ 20 ] Laib says, "The stylistic values implicit in our theories, pedagogy, and culture, so overwhelmingly favor conciseness, that elaboration gets lost in the learning process". [ 20 ]

  4. Elaboration - Wikipedia

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    Progressive elaboration, a process for creating a work breakdown structure in project management; Conceptual elaboration, the Buddhist concept of conceptual proliferation; Elaboration likelihood model, a psychological theory on the change of attitudes; Elaboration principle, a process of recruiting new members into a group

  5. Transformational grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, in many variants of transformational grammar, the English active voice sentence "Emma saw Daisy" and its passive counterpart "Daisy was seen by Emma" would share a common deep structure generated by phrase structure rules. They would differ in that only the latter would have its structure modified by a passivization transformation ...

  6. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957.A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century.

  7. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    According to Alos-Ferrer and Strack the dual-process theory has relevance in economic decision-making through the multiple-selves model, in which one person's self-concept is composed of multiple selves depending on the context. An example of this is someone who as a student is hard working and intelligent, but as a sibling is caring and ...

  8. Deep structure and surface structure - Wikipedia

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    For example, the sentences "Pat loves Chris" and "Chris is loved by Pat" mean roughly the same thing and use similar words. Some linguists, Chomsky in particular, have tried to account for this similarity by positing that these two sentences are distinct surface forms that derive from a common (or very similar [1]) deep structure.

  9. Ecphonesis - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of ecphonesis include when Homer Simpson said "No! No-no-no-no-no-no! Well, yes." during The Simpsons episode "Homer The Heretic," [1] and when the Scarecrow said "Oh joy! Rapture! I got a brain!" in The Wizard of Oz. [2] Donald Trump used the expressions "Sad!" and "Wrong!" without elaboration throughout his 2016 US presidential ...