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memory for goals: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

a model in which goals are memory traces whose activation decays and must be primed to be retrieved, explaining the costs of interruption.

In cognitive psychology, memory for goals refers to a model in which goals are memory traces whose activation decays and must be primed to be retrieved, explaining the costs of interruption. This meaning comes from Altmann (2002) in Cognitive Science.[1]

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References

Altmann, E. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Memory for goals: an activation‐based model. Cognitive Science, 26(1), 39-83. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2601_2

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