Remembering theories

• Recall


  Involves reproducing information stored in memory, whether or not a cue is used to assist the retrieval process
• Methods of recall


  • Free recall
  • Serial recall
  • Cued recall
• Free recall


  Reproducing as much information as possible in no particular order
• Serial recall


  Reproducing information in the order in which it was presented
• Cued recall


  Using specific prompts (Cues) to aid retrieval
• Recognition


  Involves identifying the correct information from among alternatives
• Recognition is a better way of retrieving information than recall
• Re-learning


  Involves learning information again that has been previously learned and stored in the LTM
• If information is learned more quickly the second time, it is assumed that some of the information must be retained from the first learning experience
• Sensitivity


  Refers to its ability to access the amount of information that has been stored in memory
• Re-learning is considered to be the most sensitive measure of retention
• Re-learning something takes less time than it did to learn it originally
• By ‘restudying’, a weak association regains its original strength in your memory
• Ebinghaus was the first researcher to scientifically study re-learning


  1885
• Method of savings


  Re-learning is also called this because it can be used to measure the amount of info ‘saved’ from previous learning