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Module 25
Retrieval
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The smell of freshly cut grass awakened in Mr. Smith vivid memories of his early childhood. The aroma apparently acted as a powerful what? | retrieval cue |
| What is the serial position effect? | the tendency to recall best the first and last items in a list |
| What is recall? | a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, with few retrieval cues |
| What is recognition? | a measure of memory in which one need only identify, rather than recall, previously learned information |
| What is relearning? | a measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material again |
| What is priming? | the activation, often unconsciously, of a web of associations in memory in order to retrieve a specific memory |
| What is mood-congruent memory? | the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood |
| When do the best retrieval cues come? | from associations formed at the time we encode a memory |
| What we learn in one condition is best remembered in that condition. What is this called? | state-dependent or mood-congruent learning |
| Name three measures of retention. | recall, recognition, and relearning |
| According to serial position effect, when recalling a list of words, you should have the greatest difficulty with which words? | the words in the middle of the list |
| Which of the measures of retention is the least sensitive in triggering retrieval? | recall |
| What is the process of getting information out of memory storage? | retrieval |
| Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were __________. | those at the beginning of the list |
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