Talk:Fuzzy-trace theory

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Cleanup
Hey, I'm just now trying to get into editing, and but I came in here because I saw it flagged for copy-editing. I'm not an expert in this subject (nor in wikification, I'm afraid), but I cleaned up the introduction a little and made it so the headings were not FUZZY-TRACE THEORY AND ALL CAPS SUBJECT, assuming that repeating "Fuzzy-Trace Theory" was redundant as it's the article title. The intro, to me at least, seems not quite NPOV--lots of mentioning of how awesome this theory is, almost. Anyway, I didn't realize quite what I was getting into, but the into is if nothing else a bit better in sentence structure. I'm hesitant to fix too much of the rest of the content until we determine that it's worth keeping. Sir Elderberry (talk) 16:22, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Expert review request
Could someone with some background in this subject verify that this article is not redundant with existing wiki articles? VQuakr (talk) 06:41, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Necessary edit
Could someone please remove all of the unnecessary text from the article so that it is just a long list of articles by Valerie Reyna, all of which have almost exactly the same title? Or, consider changing the name of the article to "VALERIE-REYNA THEORY (redirected from Fuzzy-Trace Theory)"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.231.116.205 (talk) 14:45, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Limited POV article
As some other users have pointed out (pointedly I might add), this article does not have enough diverse sources to be said to be verifiable and non-point-of-view. I have little douobt that the information relating to Fuzzy-Trace Theory is somewhat limited, and that Reyna and Brainerd are experts on this topic, but without substantial outside corraboration this article does not meet encyclopaedia standards. Hopefully others with pertinent knowledge can lend a hand here and contribute what they know, if only to give some other perspectives on the subject. Also, lets please move those citations to the bottom and attach footnotes where they are necessary. Maybe Mrs. Reyna herself could do this? Lastly, I think the first sentence in this article needs to be re-evaluated, and either changed or verified with other sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakepapp (talk • contribs) 19:03, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Editing
I completely edited this article. This new one has nothing to do with the old one. Most of the information of the previous version was't clear, the sections weren't organized and the references were confusing and most of them came from Reyna's works.

--Miolia (talk) 17:03, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Reorganization and massive edits
The Memory & Neuroscience research lab and the Laboratory for Rational Decision Making at Cornell Uni are currently working on the reorganization of the FTT Wikipedia page to fix the issues with the version submitted by Jordanaliberali on 27 June 2010‎. We are planning to submit massive changes in May. Miolia, we will make sure to incorporate your edits. --Brainerdlab on 4 April 2012 —Preceding undated comment added 03:03, 8 April 2012 (UTC).

FTT article updated on April 30rd 2012 Brainerdlab (talk) 03:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Editing2
I'm an Italian student who is attending the semester in the US at Dickinson College. I'm editing this article for one of my classes, but it is not finished yet. I'm waiting for my classmates to peer-review my article, then I'll update it again. Miolia (talk) 01:26, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Necessity and summary of the major edits - April 30rd 2012
Dear Wikipedia user, this is a follow up on the topic “Reorganization and massive edits”. As you will notice, the Memory & Neuroscience research lab and the Laboratory for Rational Decision Making at Cornell University have done an extensive reorganization of the Fuzzy-Trace theory (FTT) article. As pointed by Sir Elderbarry, Jakepapp, Miolia, and two anonymous users, the first version of the article, submitted by Jordanaliberali on 27 June 2010‎, suffered from several issues. Specifically, the article had limited POV (overreliance on primary sources), grammatical errors, lack of general organization, and incorrect use of references. As a result, the users removed a few subsections and edited the remaining sections in an effort to improve the quality of the FTT article. In particular, the user Miolia has made great effort in trying to put the article in good shape. However, the April 27th 2012 version still suffered from many of the original issues pointed before, as noted by LauraHale here. For this reason, the article was completely reorganized and edited on April 30rd 2012 in an effort to overcome the issues with the previous version.

The following three major edits were made. First, the article was reorganized in four main sections (history, memory, reasoning and decision-making, and implications) in addition to ‘’references’’ and ‘’see also’’. Second, although many of the previous subsections created by Miolia (e.g., false memories and framing effects) were preserved, they were edited to improve readability and consistency. Third, novel subsections were created (e.g., risk perception and probability judgments, management and economics) and old ones were expanded (e.g., principles of FTT). In addition, the number of unsourced statements has been greatly reduced relative to the previous version, and sources are diverse rather than exclusively from primary (Brainerd and Reyna) sources.

Nonetheless, the current version can still be improved in several ways other than fixing grammatical errors. For instance, the article lacks ‘’figures’’ that can be used to illustrate examples mentioned in sections such as Principles. Moreover, the current version does not include a section related to criticisms (e.g., whether two processes are necessary to explain recognition performance is still a matter of lively debate in the recognition memory literature).

Finally, there were two merging proposals in the previous version of the FTT article. One proposal was to merge the framing effect section with framing effect (psychology). The second proposal was to merge the false memory section with False memory syndrome. None of the proposals are appropriate, as the content of the FTT article relates to a theoretical interpretation of these phenomena. In the case of the framing effect section, however, we mentioned the main article. As a final note, someone put the FTT article as part of Fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic is a type of multi-valued logic, whereas FTT is a theory of cognition that does not explicitly draw upon any notion from fuzzy logic. Brainerdlab (talk) 02:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)