Module 2.6

Retrieval Cues

Help you remember something by your surroundings, mood, position, what you hear, taste, smell. These cues help you associate it with a memory.

perceptual set

tendency to perceive some aspect of available sensory data , but ignore others

priming

the implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later stimulus

context-dependent memory

putting yourself back in the context where you earlier experienced something can prime your memory retrieval

encoding specificity principle

the idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it

State-dependent memory

What we learn in one physiological state (ex. drunk, sleepy, sober) may be more easily recalled when we’re in that state again

Mood-congruent memory

recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad emotional state

Mood-congruency impact on duration of moods

Helps those moods persist

Serial position effect

our tendency to recall best the last (recency effect) and first (primary effect) items on a list

Metacognition

thinking about our thinking

testing effect

repeated self testing and rehearsal

Interleaving

Alternate studying for different subject will protect against overconfidence