PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Free Recall
Chapter 7: Long Term-Memory – Encoding, Retrieval, and Consolidation
• Location = can serve as a retrieval cue
o Think about the example of the teacher wanting to bring the video to class but as
he was leaving he could not remember what he needed so he went back into the
office where he had the initial thought and he then remembered what he
needed
▪ Returning to the original place helped to retrieve the original thought
• Cued Recall:
o the operation of retrieval cues in a LAB setting
▪ subject presented with retrieval cues to aid in recall of previously
experienced stimuli
o Different from free recall, which is when a subject is simply asked to recall
stimuli, such as words presented in a list
o Experiment in which subjects were asked to recall a list of words
▪ some were asked to engage in free recall while others were cued as they
were provided with the names of categories such as birds, furniture, and
professions
▪ Shows that retrieval cues aid memory
o More evidence for the power of retrieval cues
▪ Mantyla experiment in which subjects had a list of 504 nouns
▪ During study phase, were told to write 3 words they associated with each
noun
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