Retrieval process

Retrieval process

1. Ideas are associated

   • Retreival cue (stimulus/idea) triggers other memory activation
     • Elaboration creates more pottencial retrieval cues
       • Evidence: self-generated hints vs other's hints
     • Contextual stimuli similar to learning environment enhance retrieval
       • Evidence: rembembering words and romm's smell
   • Aristotle theory
     • Association through contiguity
     • Association trhough similarity
       • Depends on contiguity association

2. Retrieval is a re-construction of memories

   • fitting pre-existent believes
     • schema
       • prototype of an object
     • script
       • prototype of an event
     • gaps in memories are filled with shcema conceptions
       • evidence: native-american story/western students remembering it
   • effect of suggestion
     • false memories can appear through present stimuli
       • hypnosis
       • level of confidence vary due to reinforcers
       • leading questions
   • effect of imagination
     • greater in children
   • source confusing
     • similar events that come from deifferent sources might get mixed up and source forggoten
   • social preasure
     • social expectations affect retrieval process

3. Prospective memory (episodic future thought)

   • types
     • Event-based
     • time-based
   • mechanism of retrieval
     • 1.plan 2.remembering 3.control behavior and mental experience (switching)
     • uses limited working memory resources