Retrieval - Memory

Question 1

What is retrieval in memory?

Answer 1

The third process. Involves locating the item and using it from our memory and sometimes we actively reconstruction that memory

Question 2

What are free recall paradigms?

Answer 2

Using long word tasks for retrieval

Question 3

What is serial position effect?

Answer 3

Shows very predictable patterns of performance, where your much more likely to remember the first and last words from a list

Question 4

What are primacy effects?

Answer 4

Our memory is best for things we learn first where capacity allows you to rehearse these words more than any others in the list

Question 5

What are recent effects?

Answer 5

Our memory is good for things learned last, relates to STM contribution as when asked to recall a word from the list the last word is in your STM

Question 6

What are context and internal states for the effects of memory?

Answer 6

Memory is better when your in the context you learned the material + when your internal state is the same at the time of learning