Types of Retrieval Flashcards
Put these in order of sensitivity (most to least):
Free recall, cued recall, recognition, relearning.
Relearning
Recognition
Cued recall
Free recall
Free recall verses Cued recall (Tulving & Psotka) - Which produces better memory?
Cued recall.
What causes a delay in free recall?
Not a decay in memory, it’s just that there’s a lack of association.
What is the Generate-Recognise Theory of Free Recall? (Anderson & Bower, 1972)
Think of all the possible things it could be, and wait until something you recognise comes up.
What is the Pegword Method?
One is a bun… Two is a shoe… Etc. (with images)
Why was cued recall better than recognition performance in Tulving & Thomson’s (1973) study?
Cued recall is pretty easy (because cues were straight forward).
Recognition task is pretty difficult (because you have generated these items yourself).
What is the Encoding Specificity Principle? (Tulving, 1983)
Memory performance is best when the cues present at test match those that were encoded with memory at study.
What are cues?
The context/what was going on at the time.
The more times you’re tested on something, the more times you believe you ____________.
Studied it.
What is reality monitoring?
Trying to work out which parts of memory came from real life and which were imagined.
What were the findings of the toothpick study?
The more time they imagined breaking the toothpick, the more times they believed they actually broke it.
What was the correlation between confidence and accuracy for recognition? Recall?
Recognition: 0.29
Recall: 0.53
(higher in recall)
What may explain confidence in retrieval?
Ease of retrieval.
