PSY 452 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Free Recall, Encoding Specificity Principle, Endel Tulving
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Memory-retrieval: cannot consider encoding factors without also examining retrieval, retrieval was largely neglected until the late 60"s, research accelerated in the 70"s. 10. 52: some information is available (in memory) even if it isn"t currently accessible. Items per category: memory tests can only tell us what someone knows under a particular set of retrieval conditions, thomson & tulving (1970): ss study word pairs with strong and weak associations, strong: dark light, white black. Weak: head light, train black: given a cued-recall test with either the same or a different cue from study. Weak test cue d e l l a c e. What cues have been studied: physical context, mental context o physical state. Our physical environment can be a cue: consider going to the fridge, godden & baddeley (1975): divers study a list of words on dry land or under 20 ft of water.
