PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Memory Rehearsal, Mnemonic, Free Recall
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Before there can be a memory, some learning must occur; that is, new information must be acquired (acquisition) Then, once information has been acquired, it must be held in memory until it is needed (storage) Finally, we use the information that is in memory; we remember. Information is somehow found in the vast warehouse that is memory and brought into active use; this is called retrieval. According to the modal model, our information processing involves different kinds of memory, two of which are short-term memory and long-term memory. Free recall procedure: participants are free to report the words in any order they choose. Remembering the first few words on the list primacy effect. Remembering the last few words on the list recency effect. The proposal is that the list"s ending is still in working memory when the list ends, and working memory"s contents are easy to retrieve (this is the source of the recency effect)
