PSY 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 60: Explicit Memory, Recognition Memory

• School: Pace University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 112
• Professor: Siporin

Document Summary

Explicit/declarative memory: knowledge/experiences that can be consciously remembered: there are 2 types of explicit memory, episodic: firsthand experiences that we have had. High school graduation: semantic: knowledge of facts & concepts about the world. Ex: taking a test that requires us to generate previously remembered/retained info. Free recall: measure of memory w/ no prompts/clues. Cued recall: includes retrieval cue in request for memory. Absolute value of 90 > absolute value of 9. One definition of the word (cid:498)affect(cid:499) = experience of involves bringing from memory info that"s previously been remembered. Recall memory test: measure of explicit memory that: assessed using measures in which individual being tested must consciously attempt to remember info. Recognition memory test: measure of explicit memory that involves determining whether info has been seen/learned before. Relearning: assess how much more quickly info is processed/learned when it"s studied again after it has already been learned, but then forgotten.