PSYC 2650 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Learning pairs of words for a memory test of the second word. Generate four free-associates to words come up with 4 different words that. Cued recall fill in the blank with whatever the first word was paired with . 61% correct: similarity of encoding and retrieval conditions, dissimilar in phase 1 and 2 = poor recognition, similar in phase 1 and 4 = good recall. Stronger if they were semantic e. g. wasp-sting. Weak if lacking connection e. g. cowboy-chair: retrieval in encoding contexts. Old (same context as encoding: semantic pairs stronger than non-semantic pairs. New (different context then encoding: semantic coding pairs still stronger, recognition. Old > new: semantic and weak pairings both have greater recall in the old contexts than the new, shows that where something was learned there is a better chance of recall. Proactive is when learning of new material is disrupted by previously-learned.