1. Older children and adults often try to retrieve the names of things they saw, but infants would not have encoded the information verbally. 年龄较大的孩子和成人总是试图回忆他们看到的事物的名称，但是，婴儿不会通过语言来对信息进行编码。
2. Whether people can remember an event depends critically on the fit between the way in which they earlier encoded the information and the way in which they later attempt to retrieve it. 人们能否记住一件事，主要取决于他们早先为信息编码的方式与后来试图检索信息的方式的吻合程度。
3. However, in ants there is no cultural transmission — everything must be encoded in the genes — whereas in humans the opposite is true. 然而，在蚂蚁身上没有文化传承——一切都必须在基因中编码——而在人类身上恰恰相反。
4. The better able the person is to reconstruct the perspective from which the material was encoded, the more likely that recall will be successful. 一个人重构信息资料转化方式的能力越强，这种回忆过程就越有可能成功。
5. Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not. 女孩对粉色的迷恋似乎是不可避免的，这在某种程度上是由她们的 DNA 决定的，但美国研究副教授乔·保莱蒂认为，事实并非如此。
