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Andy's blog post about writing SRS prompts

Instead, it will reinforce whatever knowledge you consistently use when generating an answer. Your novel responses may also make meaningful associations which strengthen your memory through elaborative encoding. And those associations may be particularly sticky because of See Slamecka and Graf, The Generation Effect: Delineation of a Phenomenon (1978). another memory phenomenon called the generation effect: you remember information better when you generated it yourself.
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Such cues engage another memory phenomenon cognitive scientists have explored experimentally: you make information easier to recall when you connect it to other memories. This process is called elaborative encoding See e.g. Bradshaw and Anderson, paper - elaborative encoding (1982).. The members of an ingredient list can be difficult to relate to anything meaningful. In such cases, you can still leverage elaborative encoding by fabricating an association as a mnemonic device. Vivid associations work best, so it’s helpful to find relationships involving visuals, meaningful personal experiences, or emotions like humor and disgust.
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vivid associations work best is like facts are memorable when they have many visceral associations

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