1. Retrieval: Getting information out Long after you cannot recall most of the people in your school yearbook you are still able to recognize their pictures from a photographic line up. Recognition - is a measure of memory in which the person needs only to identify item previous learned in the past To remember an event requires not only encoding and storing it but also getting it out To most people memory is called recall. Which is the ability to retrieve information not in our conscious awareness.

2. IF YOU LEARNED SOMETHING AND THEN FORGOT IT, YOU PROBABLY WILL RELEARN IT MORE QUICKLY THEN YOU ORIGINALLY LEARNED IT. Relearning -is a measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time

3. Retrieval clues The more retrieval clues you have, the better your chances of finding a route to the suspended memory. Memories are stored in a web of associations. Priming- The activation often unconsciously, of particular association in memory.(invisible memory) this happens without our awareness. Anchor points you can use to access the target information when you want to retrieve it later.

4. Contexts effects Déjà vu (French for “already seen”)- sometimes being in a context similar to one we’ve in before may trigger this experience

5. Moods and Memories Events in the past may have aroused a specific emotion that can later can prime us to recall its associated events. An emotion is like a library into which we place memory records. What we learn in one state- be it joyful or sad, drunk or sober- it are sometimes recalled when we are again in that state We associate good and bad events with their emotions thus our memories are mood congruent- the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood.

6. forgetting Three sins of forgetting Absent mindedness- inattention to details produces encoding failure Transience- storage decay over time Blocking- inaccessibility of stored info Bias-belief color recollection One sin of intrusion Persistence-unwanted memories Three sins of distortion Misattribution-confusing the source of info Suggestibility-the lingering effect of misinformation

7. interference Proactive interference-the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information. Retroactive interference-the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info Learning some items might interfere with retrieving others, especially when the items are similar. Ex if someone gives you a phone number you may recall it later but if two or more people do the same thing it can be difficult to recall later. specialized technicians would be most likely to use computerized test equipment?

8. Motivated forgetting In the concept of repression scientest found out that our memory system does indeed self sensor painful information. We do this to protect our self concept and to minimize anxiety. Repression- the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety- arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories