SET L — Retrieval, Recognition, SDT, Dual Process

What is retrieval?

The process of recovering a target memory based on cues.

What are retrieval cues?

Features related to the original experience that can reactivate memory.

Why must cues be relevant?

Only encoded cues can effectively reactivate memory.

Why is retrieval reconstructive?

It combines episodic features with semantic knowledge.

What is recognition memory?

Deciding whether a stimulus has been encountered before.

How does recognition differ from recall?

Recognition provides the item; recall requires self-generated cues.

What is corrected recognition?

Hit rate minus false alarm rate.

What limitation of SDT motivated dual-process models?

It cannot explain recollection separately from familiarity.

Dual-process model — key claim

Recognition involves both familiarity and recollection.

Neural basis of recollection?

Hippocampus.

Neural basis of familiarity?

Perirhinal cortex.

What selectively impairs recollection?

Divided attention

Recall tasks rely on what process?

Recollection.

Modern working memory models

Most retain a central executive helper systems and episodic buffer

Cowan’s embedded processes model

A contemporary alternative emphasizing attention and activated long-term memory