PSYC 3265 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Detection Theory, Recognition Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle
12 Oct 2016
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Chapter 8 retrieval (cid:498)tip of the tongue(cid:499) phenomenon example of retrieval failure; can be created by reading out a series of. There"re people with a specific deficit like that; they are not amnesic, in a sense that memories aren"t definitions of relatively obscure words to the participants and asking them to name the object being defined. Giving the participant the first letter of the word, frequently tends to prompt the correct name. properly stored and retained; rather, they suffer from disruptions in the retrieval processes necessary to intentionally access their memories. Ex: patients with pfc lesions were uniformly worse at remembering the names of famous people compared to age-matched control participants, regardless of the decade from which the famous face was drawn. In contrast, patients could easily pick the correct famous names when they were presented to them for recognition and were not worse than control participants.
