Transcript Retrieval
Retrieval
Memory Retrieval
To
retrieve a memory you must first have
some kind of retrieval cue
Examples?
Retrieval
Activating
one strand of a
schematic memory is called
priming.
Mnemonic devices encoding and mnemonic
retrieval
Forgetting as Retrieval error.
If
we cannot remember
something, it could be that:
never encoded
difficulty retrieving it
• Interference of other memories are
common retrieval errors.
Memory Construction is like a
mosaic
Our
memories are what we encode as well
as how we retrieve them.
Remember we encode information
semantically and may fill in the blanks with
details that aren’t correct, or color the memory
by the mood we are in.
Memory Construction: like a mosaic
Déjà
vu is often caused by the firing of network
by a cue that makes you believe you’ve
experienced the whole picture before,
recall vs. recognition
Tip of Tongue
Problem
of retrieval
Retrieval
Context effect: Putting yourself back
into the context where a memory was
formed may trigger that memory.
Going
by an old house, a smell of perfume
from a former girlfriend, or the smell of
autumn football, may bring back a flood of
memories.
Retrieval
State
dependent memory: the
state we are in influences the
memories that are retrieved.
When sad, happy, drunk whatever,
these become a retrieval cue.
Mood
Congruence:
when sad, we are likely to remember
events as being sadder than we thought
at the time or happier if happy.
Source Amnesia
Where
we got a memory from, the
source, one of weakest areas of memory.
Child studies
Piaget?
Neuro brain development?
Misinformation Effect
Similarly, we can encode a false memory if we
are led to believe something occurred that didn’t.
That memory will become just as real as memory of
an event that actually occurred.
We also fill in the gaps when retrieving
memories
retrieval cues offered can change the memory as it
comes out.
Retrieval activity
Eyewitness Memory
Because
of source amnesia and
misinformation effect, eyewitness
memories are notoriously bad.
Elizabeth Loftus: Eyewitness
Faculty
recall confabulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcywPd
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