PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychogenic Amnesia, Interference Theory, Executive Functions
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Test phase: fill in the blank type: guess the word with the question mark. Results: it was found that participants perform poorly when there are surrounding words around that the question mark. Hearing other people generating responses gets in the way of your own retrieval strategy. Incidental forgetting- retrieval practice paradigm: category 1: fruit; category 2: drinks, retrieval practice of only one of the categories. Fruit-or__: everything from phase 1 is recalled. Results: better performance for orange" and the association for this cue becomes stronger: orange was a practice item from the practice category of fruits". Worse performance for unpracticed items, like banana". Association between fruit and orange was overpowering than the association between fruit and banana. In the second category (baseline-because there was no practice conducted with this category: wine and gin were unpracticed words from this category: performance was okay for wine and gin.
