Retrieval cues and tricks

What is the biggest problem when retrieving information from our long term memory?

• How the info was originally stored in our long term memory

• Our long term memories are limited to 20 or 30 items

• Our short term memory may have not held on to the memory

• Amnesia due to trauma

What is a stimulus for remembering called?

• encoding strategy

• retrieval cue

• recall

• recognition

What are two examples of encoding specificity?

• Context dependent learin

• acronym

• rhythmic device

• state dependent learning

Taking the ACT in the same room that you study in and doing better is an example of which type of memory?

• state dependent learning

• context dependent learning

Megan and Bob were fighting... Megan remembered all of the bad things Bob did her over the years. This is an example of...

• state dependent learning

• context dependent learning

What is a strategy to help remember information more effectively?

• mnemonic device

• recall program

• tip of the tongue syndrome

• recognition tool