Remembering

• What is remembering?

  Recalling information
• What is recall?

  Recall is the ability to retrieve information from memory.
• What are the two types of recall?

  • Free recall
  • Cued recall
• What is free recall?

  The idea of retrieving something from our memory store without being assisted by anything
• What is an example of free recall?

  Where participants study a list of items and are then asked to recall the items in any order
• What is cued recall?

  Is a memory process where information is retrieved from memory by the assistance of a prompt or cue
• What are the two main forms of remembering?

  • Recall
  • Recognition
• What is recognition memory?

  Recognition memory is remembering something because we have encountered it before in the past
• What does recognition memory suggest?

  We have memory stored in our long term memory store that we cannot access through free recall
• What is an example of recognition memory?

  Recognising someone's name when you hear it
• What is a cue?

  A trigger that allows us to access material in memory
• What are meaningful cues?

  This cue is directly linked to the information we are trying to remember
• What is an example of a meaningful cue?

  Mnemonics
• What are cues without meaning?

  This cue is not directly related to the information we are trying to remember but may occur at the same time we learn it
• What is an example of a cue without meaning?

  When someone is sad they think of sad experiences (emotion)
• What is an example of a cue without meaning?

  Remembering a first date because of the perfume someone is wearing
• What is one strength of retrieval cues?

  One strength is practical application of retrieval cues. Mnemonics are a method of improving memory based on cues.
• What is one weakness of cues?

  One weakness is that some cues are not very important in everyday remembering