reproduction
- noun
- /ˌriːprəˈdʌkʃən/
- Specialized
- To study memory retrieval, the researcher asked the students to provide a reproduction of the images they had learned earlier.
- motor reproduction
Examples
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In memory research, the participant's ability to recall details was tested by using a reproduction of the original text.
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The experiment focused on how accurate the reproduction of visual stimuli could affect memory retention.
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Words and mechanical reproduction come into play.
Academic text (2003) -
- This is supposed to be a reproduction of an experiment that does not involve people screaming.
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Viewing angles, color reproduction, and resolution are in a class of their own.
Blog text (23) -
No doubt other readers will respond to the reproduction of these watercolors in other ways.
Academic text (1997) -
It's a coldly accurate reproduction of what science thinks went on during the first few billion years of this planet's existence.
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Due to our numbers, our interchangeability, and our ease of reproduction, we are quite fatalistic about individual life.
Fiction book (1991) -
For those who felt the goal was flawless, fluent oral reproduction of the graphic input, basic skills worked well.
Academic text (1991) -
Many of the presidential websites contain information about exhibits and collections, but the digital reproductions of the materials aren't available through the Internet.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Ability to remember things you learned
Ability to remember information or past events
Finding information in your memory, for example a word when you speak
A way of remembering that makes an exact copy of the original experience
The ability to remember and keep information or past experiences
Compounds
- Specialized
A way plants and animals make seeds or babies when male and female cells join
- Specialized
A way of making new living things from one parent without sex that makes identical copies
- Specialized
Money needed to make an exact copy of a building or item after reducing for loss in value
How Accurate
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reproduction comes from re- 'again' and produce 'to make', the same root as the common word product. So to reproduce a memory is to 'make it again' or 'bring it back' in your mind.