PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elizabeth Loftus, Eyewitness Testimony, Yield Sign
6 Oct 2016
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For best results on memory recall: the context of retrieval should match the context of encoding. i. e. studying (retrieval) in a testing (encoding) environment. Brinegar, lehman & malmberg (2013) composed a study: Case 1: the study and test were in the same context (or environment) Case 2: the test was in a different context than study. Case 3: the participants were studying in a non-test context but asked to think about the test context. Case 3 (preinstatement) was most effective for memory recall. Case 2 (different context) was least effective for memory recall. We are very good at recalling gist; we are much less good at recalling surface details. People include what they ordinarily expect to see outside the picture"s boundaries. Memory changes in the direction of the normal view. The difficulty lies in recalling exact details for human memory.
