Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Serving, tending, or having power to elaborate; working out with minute attention to completeness and to details; laboriously bringing to a state of completion or perfection.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
  • adjective (Metaph.) the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

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  • adjective Serving to elaborate.

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Examples

  • The trick, Foer says, is to adopt a process known as "elaborative encoding", which involves converting information, such as a shopping list, into a series of "engrossing visual images".

    The lost art of total recall 2011

  • This is consistent with laboratory evidence – although rehearsing a list of words improves long-term memory for the material to some degree, a more effective strategy is so-called "elaborative" processing, which involves relating the information to associated facts and relevant knowledge.

    How to maximise your memory 2012

  • It may also be undervalued in progressive curricula that emphasize so-called elaborative methods, such as concept mapping.

    Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011

  • The more ludicrous, creative and elaborative you can be, the greater the chance of success.

    How to maximise your memory 2012

  • Those parents who adopt an elaborative style have children who produce more sophisticated narratives later on.

    Shared memories and the problems they cause 2012

  • Highest levels of recall were observed following question c, which involves deeper, more elaborative, meaning-based processing.

    How to maximise your memory 2012

  • However, if retention is measured after a one-week delay, repeated retrieval testing can lead to markedly better recall than repeated studying, even if the studying involves an elaborative learning strategy.

    How to maximise your memory 2012

  • Blunt, challenges the generally accepted ethos of elaborative learning -- which asks students to elaborate on material studied -- as more productive than straight retrieval.

    Testing Still Key For Information Retention: Study Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2011

  • Adolescents who had been exposed to an elaborative conversational style in the preschool years produced earlier memories than those whose parents had tended just to repeat factual details.

    Shared memories and the problems they cause 2012

  • Indeed, elaborative processing is such a powerful memorisation technique that it appears not to matter whether you are trying to learn the elaborated information.

    How to maximise your memory 2012

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