U3 AOS2 Dot Point 11

Question 1

what are retrieval cues

Answer 1

stimulus that assists the process of locating and recovering information stored in memory

Question 2

types of retrieval cues

Answer 2

context dependent
state dependent

Question 3

context dependent cues

Answer 3

environmental cues in the specific setting where a memory was formed

Question 4

state dependent cues

Answer 4

internal psychological and physiological state

Question 5

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 5

increases duration of STM
involves meaningless repetition

Question 6

elaborative rehearsal

Answer 6

linking new info in a meaningful way with info already stored in LTM

Question 7

serial position effect

Answer 7

tendency to remember things from the beginning and end of a list of items

Question 8

recency effect

Answer 8

remembering things at the end of a list because they are still in STM

Question 9

primacy effect

Answer 9

remembering things at the start of a list because they have had time to enter LTM

Question 10

immediate recall’s effect on the serial position effect

Answer 10

should decrease recency effect because it wont be in LTM anymore

shouldn’t effect primacy effect