PSYCO258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Interference Theory, Recognition Memory
7 Mar 2016
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Memory: cue retrieval based on cue. Recall (like short answer questions: cues may be provided (remember everything that happened yesterday, can depend on strategic, planful generation of your own cues to generate the most information. Performance in general is worse on recall tasks than recognition tasks. Everything is stored, but can"t always get information out: have to generate a cue to get the info out, but there is other processes getting in the way (interference from other learning prevents retrieval) Some ebbinghaus results (basic facts about interference 1886) Study time / item (more study time=better retrieval) Serial position effects: where in the list is the item your looking for. Learn something, then engage in other activities, then you have to recall information again. The new activity can interfere with your ability to learn the material (goes back = retro) When you learn something you have other things you already know, which you can build upon.
