Retrieval and Forgetting Mod 27/28

Recall

Free recall

You know it

Recognition

Cued recall

Context clues

Context effects

Environment effects emotions and feelings (Context dependent memory)

State dependent memory

State triggers retrieval cues

Physical, inebriated and alcohol

Mood congruent memory

Emotions trigger retrieval cues

Retrieval practice

Actively recalling info to remember better

Testing effect

Assessment vs restudyong

Metacognition

Thinking about thinking

Forgetting

Inability to retrieve stored information

Forgetting curve

Memory declines rapidly over time

Encoding failure

Information never successfully enters memory

Proactive interference

Procures the past

Blocking new memories

Retroactive interference

Remembers recent

Blocking past memories

Inadequate retrieval

Unable to retrieve a memory

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Vividly recall everything of a memory except for part of it

Repression

Psychodynamic

Defense mechanism (conceal and hide it)

Ego

Misinformation effect

Memory altered by misleading post event information

Source amnesia

Remembering info but forgetting its origin

Constructive memory

Updating memories

Filling in gaps

Memory consolidation

Short term into long term

Imagination inflation

Imagining leads to recollection