PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Diving Equipment, Endel Tulving
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Memories are useless if you cannot retrieve it: must be retrieved to be used. Retrieval cues: stimuli that help us remember information stored in our memory: many things serve as retrieval cues. Location: ex. telling yourself in your room to grab the dvd before you leave the house. You go to the living room to grab the dvd only to forget what you"re supposed to grab. You go back to your room, think hard, and remember . Auditory: hearing a song brings back the memories for events. Smell: perhaps a perfume that reminds you of someone, or the way a certain space smelled. Cued recall: subject is presented w/ retrieval cues to aid in recall of previously experienced stimuli. Give subjects cues about the category the subject recalls the information in that category. Cued recall results in higher recall ability. Retrieval cues are significantly more effective when they"re created by the person, whose memory is being tested.
