-our ability to produce previously learned information
Recognition
-our ability to identify periviously learned items
Retrieval Cues
-stimuli that help you access memories stored in long-term memory
Priming
-the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory. Ex: Seeing poster of missing child->relating to kidnapping
Encoding Specify Principle
-cues and context specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it. Ex: seeing your 7th grade teacher in a store.
Mood Congruent
-the tendency to recall experiences that are consisted with one's current good or bad mood
-Ex: When your sad, you get reminded of other sad things from the past.
Serial Position Effect
-our tendency to recall best the last items in a list initially (recency effect), and the first items in a list after a delay (primary effect)
How can we improve our memory retrieval?
-Metacognition, testing effect, and interleaving (switch between topics to study, mixing the study of different topics)
Context-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon where people are more likely to recall information when they are in the same physical or environmental context in which they originally learned the information.
State-dependent memory refers to the phenomenon where people are better able to recall information if they are in the same mental or physical state as they were when the memory was formed.
