PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: False Alarm, Implicit Memory, Episodic Memory
22 Mar 2016
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In general the feeling that you know something is a good indicaion that you do, given the right promping. In ip-of-the-tongue state, many people struggle to recall knowledge that they feel they know. During retrieval we are usually seeking a paricular memory called the target memory or target trace. Snippets of informaion used to access memory are known as retrieval cues: without speciicaion of what you are trying to retrieve your memory has nothing to work with. Retrieval: the process of recovering a target memory based on one or more cues, subsequently bringing that target into awareness. Traces in memory are linked up to one another by connecions that are called associaions or links: are structural linkages between traces that vary in strength. Content addressable memory: any aspect of the content of a memory can serve as a reminder that could access the experience. Each memory has an internal state of its own, relecing how excited or.
