PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: False Alarm, Dual Process Theory, Detection Theory
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*generally: free recall < cued recall < recognition. *different tasks tap different memory processes? (yes: evidence for a recall/recognition distinction, the word frequency effect (e. g. , aardvark vs. cat, aardvark is a low frequency word; cat is a high frequency word. *high frequency words are better recalled than low frequency words. *disrupt recall more than recognition; recognition not very effected: recall/recognition dissociation, the generate-recognize model kintch (1970) a. For the remaining studied items (1-r) there is no true remembering, but the subject may correctly respond on the basis of a guess (g: hit rate = p( old"| old) = r + (1-r) g. Remembering plus random guessing : hit rate = r + (1-r) g. Hit rate false alarm rate = r (a measure of true remembering: properties of the threshold model, accounts for fa > 0. In agreement with some introspections: sometimes we guess. Sometimes we remember information: a very simple model.
