RETRIEVAL

by: Czarina Mae Pacala

RETRIEVAL FROM SHORT-TERM MEMORY

• Parallel Processing
-refers to the simultaneous handling of multiple operations.
As applied to short-term memory, the items stored in short-
term memory would be retrieved all at once, not one at a
time.
• Serial Processing
-refers to operations being done one after another.
2 ways to gain access to the stimuli
• Exhausted Serial Processing
- implies that the participant always check the test digits
against all digits in the positive set.
• Self- terminating Serial Processing
- implies that the participant would check the test digit
against only those digits needed to make a response.
RETRIEVAL FROM LONG-TERM MEMORY
- difficult to separate storage.
• 2 ways of Recall test
- Free recall conditions- participants merely recalled as
many words as they could in any order they choose.
-Cued recall conditions- participants were tested category
by category.
• An interesting study by Khader et al.(2005) demonstrated
that material that is processed in certain cortical areas
during perception also activates those same areas again
during long-term memory recall.
• Availability- the presence of information stored in long-
term memory.
• Accessibility- the degree to which we can gain access to
the available information.
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