Long Term Memory Retrieval

There are a lot of things to do in college: parties at friend’s house every weekend, work 20-40 hours to pay bills or buy their necessities, some do adventures or volunteer to gain experience, and others take so many classes just to finish early or on time. Because of the busy schedules of students, sometimes they do not have enough time to study for all their classes and that is why they ended up cramming for the test. When students cram for exam they depends mostly on their memory retrieval. Retrieving of the information helps student to recall the lectures that was encoded and stored in their brain. Memory retrieval is the process of taking information out of storage. Memory retrieval has four basics retrieval cues in which the information can be taken from long term memory. Retrieval cues are hints that generate the retrieval of long term memories. First cue …show more content…
Answering a simple question is an example of recall. Second cue is recollection, it involves partial memories, reconstructing memory, and clues. For example, telling someone about an eventful night because it involves remembering some information and reconstruct the other information by partial memories. Third cue is recognition, it involves recognizing information after it happens again. For example, meeting with an old friend. The last cue is relearning, this cues involves relearning the information that was learned previously. This cue helps remember and retrieve information in the future and improve memories. Semantic Memory helps a person to understand the meaning of a word, object, or an event. Semantic memory was structured through hierarchical model of organization in which the lists are arranged from common to least traits. It was also based on definingness and helps generate typicality of an object. Clearly, people encoded and stored information based on the perceptual property of an object (Katz, 1981).Many