01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Long-Term Memory, Free Recall

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

Once a perception or thought is place into your memory, it stays there forever: what we call forgetting is either the inability to recall stored info, or the failure to store info. Once info is stored in memory, it is never forgotten. Information must be produced with little to no hint provided (essay and short-answer items. ). It is a memory task in which the individual must reproduce material from memory without cue: ex. Trenton: retrieval cues - young children depend on retrieval cues provided by adults than older children. Reminders or hints that help us to retrieve information from long- term memory are called retrieval cues. They are bits of associated info that help you to regain complex memories: cued recall gives significant hints about the correct answer. A fill-in-the-blank test uses this method: recognition requires the person being tested to identify the correct item from a list of choices.