PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Retrograde Amnesia, Biological Neural Network, Thiamine
16 Dec 2016
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Memory: the processes that allow us to record experiences and information to retrieve later. Regarded as central to all thought processes. Associationism: argued that all experience consisted of simple sensations or other psychological elements . Something, either similarity or occurrence at the same time, links/associates the elements together into a more complex package. Free recall: reading or hearing a list of single items followed by an attempt to recall them in any order. Cued recall: hints (memory cues) help to stimulate recall. Paired associates learning: a type of cued recall task in which one memorizes pairs of items and the investigator gives the first item in the pair and the subject must supply the second. Recognition: the ability to recognize previously presented information. Relearning (savings method): what you are able to remember vs. learning something new. Recall, recognition, and relearning are all direct/explicit tests. Methods of implicit (indirect) tests implicit /indirect tests disguise that they are testing memory.
