Within the psychology department at a university, there is a large volume of information that needs to be remembered, relating to a whole manner of different things (e.g., research, post-graduate supervision, undergraduate teaching, equipment and administrative matters). This is too much information for one individual to remember. Instead, certain individuals are formally responsible for particular domains (e.g., research) but everyone in the department is able to remember who is responsible for each domain. This is an example of:

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This scenario is an example of transactive memory, where a group collectively encodes, stores, and retrieves knowledge. Each member knows different information, but together they can access a wider range of information by knowing who is responsible for what domain.

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