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Cognitive psychology

the theory that people encode both exact verbatim traces and fuzzy gist traces of information and usually reason with the gist.

In cognitive psychology, fuzzy-trace theory refers to the theory that people encode both exact verbatim traces and fuzzy gist traces of information and usually reason with the gist. This meaning comes from Reyna (1995) in Learning and Individual Differences.[1]

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Reyna, V. F., & Brainerd, C. J. (1995). Fuzzy-trace theory: An interim synthesis. Learning and Individual Differences, 7(1), 1-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/1041-6080(95)90031-4

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