PSYC 2265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Endel Tulving, Parsley, Free Recall
22 Apr 2017
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Psyc 2265 lecture 15 memory: retrieval. When studying, they are aware of how they will be tested, and they encode info in a way that will make it easy to retrieve in the test context. We tailor our encoding to the expected retrieval context and when we are right, we retrieve better: tulving & pearlstone (1966, encoded 24 categorized lists with 2 target words. Type of spice: garlic, parsley: remember target words (garlic, parsley) Free recall: less than half recalled. Cued recall (category names provided: 75% recalled, encoding specificity principle (esp, successful retrieval. Depends on the amount of overlap between what"s happening at retrieval and what"s happened at encoding. Memory retrieval is aided by a cue to the extent that the cue helps reconstruct the encoding situation: thomson & tulving, 1970, demonstrating encoding specificity principle. Encoded weakly related word pairs: plant-bug (bug was target) Cued recall (cue was varied: strong cue (strongly related to target)
