Memory. The three memory processes include encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Recall tasks differ from recognition tasks because the first provide us with enough of details or important cues for information to remember, whereas recognition tasks originally give us a number of answers, from which only one is correct.
My performance. My score on the Recall Test was 6 words out of 15.
My score on the Recognition Test was 15 words out of 15.
My pattern of performance was not that of serial position effect since I recalled correctly only the words presented at the beginning.
My performance showed a significant advantage for recognition over recall (15 words for recognition and 6 words for recall).
False Memory. Deals with our brain that as if remembers the things that did not happen in reality.
I also showed false recall for the word “sleep”. This happened because of vivid associations with the first word “bed”.
The two “sins of forgetting” are as follows: misattributions and suggestibility. Misattributions may happen when a person forgets the real source and attributes it to an imagined source. Suggestibility may happen when a person receives incorrect information from other sources.
Eyewitness testimony and memory distortions come to be important in justice and the court system as well. In case when misinformation effect happens, the event’s information becomes distorted and the event witnesses remember only the new information and recall it as the correct one. They can no longer recall accurate details and thus base their testimony on suggestibility.
Works Cited
Ludwig, E. T. “Trusting your memory.” http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/WebPub/Psychology/psychsim5/PsychSim5%20Tutorials/Trusting%20Your%20Memory/TrustingYourMemory.htm. Web.
