PSYD50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Episodic Memory, Threshold Graph, False Alarm
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E. g. if you see someone you know, you can recognize them and you remember what you did with them this is episodic memory. E. g. if you recognize the face but it"s out of context, then it is familiarity. Recollected memory: slower, more controlled and more effort to recall. Important for theoretical perspective and its impact in the real world: patients w/ brain damage have problems with recollective memory, but familiarity remains intact. Recognition test: same as recall, but the difference is that you mix in some new items when you present them the items. Cons: do not measure familiarity; lacking sensitivity: if subtle memory problem, then these tests are not good. They only good at detecting problems that are sever. Some researchers argue that this test does not measure remember or know, but only how aware you are. Remember and know responses are not qualitatively different.
