Talk:Transactive memory

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 11:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Wegner's concept of Transactive Memory
Wegner's concept of Transactive Memory also includes external memory storage, e.g., paper notes, computer storage, links and tags to information on the internet . Including external storage greatly enhances the power of the concept of Transactive Memory when the vast capacity and potential of the internet is considered. We are daily confronted with the problem of whether or not information needs to be stored in internal memory or in some form of external memory storage. Should I write this down, input it to my PDA, save the information to my computer, tag it, etc? A little thought leads to some interesting epistemological questions. Educational and testing issues are also raised. DougGriffith (talk) 21:06, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Though I this article gives a good general sense of transactive memory (systems) research, it avoids mentioning some of the conflicts present in the literature and presents this construct as more or less generally agreed upon. I am planning on making some changes to the article to better reflect the current and original work in the next few days and wanted to let people know the areas I was going to focus on. Lewis and Herndon (2011) "TMSs: Current issues and future research directions" (Organization Science 22, 5) outline how the construct is used or defined differently by some researches. For example, the Wikipedia article currently says that: "Many researchers consider the basic components of transactive memory system to be specialization, coordination and credibility" but those are only the indicators that a TMS has formed, not actually the TMS itself. The article also incorrectly asserts that Wegner's original work called the 3 components: encoding, storage, and retrieval; prerequisits for TMS. They are better described as the process of the development of TMS. JonKush (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I think we should remove the link to thisislike.com The best I can tell it is just a different kind of search engine, not directly related to transactive memory theory.JonKush (talk) 03:35, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Expansion of Transactive Processes Section
This section is sparse, as noted in the good article review, so I would like to add more to the encoding, storage, and retrieval based off information from already cited sources, and possibly give some quick examples to make the definitions more relevant. It might also help to add in a basic definition of specialization since it is mentioned here before it is explained more in depth later in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Termao63 (talk • contribs) 08:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)