PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Free Recall

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Memory: is the system or process by which the products or results of learning are stored for future use: makes us who we are, without memory there is no development. Nonsense syllables: it is the stimuli used to study memory, typically composed of a constant vowel-constant sequence. Serial learning: it"s a learning procedure where memory is repeated in order it was presented; also known as order recall. Free recall: learning procedure in which material is learned by repeating in any order. Serial position effect: beginning and end words are more clearly recalled, not much of the middle ones. Paired associated learning: as the name suggests it"s the learning that take place by associating two objects/words/concepts together. Recognition test: test in which the retention is measured by the ability to pick out previously learned items from a list that also contains unfamiliar items. Relearning test: compares the no. if trials required to learn the same material.