PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psy, Long-Term Memory, Caffeine
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3 method for measuring retention: cues or with general retrieval cues. Recall: produce required information by searching our memory without retrieval. Recognition: recognize something as familiar; provide specific cues. The second time around it will take you less time to learn it to mastery as it did for the first time. The percentage of time between the first time that you learned it and the second time when you relearned it is known as the saving score. The number of trials that it took you to re-read the list in order to learn it to mastery. Tells us how quickly we forget information. No, it is not a permanent record. Piercing together of a few highlights, using information that may or may not be accurate what we remember is really our interpretation of the event because memories are highly reconstructed. The main event is remembered by everyone in the same way, but the details can.
