Measures of retention including: - relative sensitivity of recall, recognition & relearning

Serial recall

remember as much as possible in order.

Free recall

reproducing information from memory in any order, without the assistance or cues.

Serial recall

reproducing information from memory in the order in which it was presented

Storage

retention of information in memory over time

Forgetting

the inability to retrieve previously stored information.

Cued recall

use of cues to aid retrieval (eg giving 1st letter of word)

Free recall

asked to remember as much as possible (tray of items game)

Forgetting curve

a graph showing a characteristic pattern (rate and amount) of forgetting that occurs over time for a wide variety of materials under different conditions..

Relearning

a measure of retention based on learning information again that has previously learned and stored in long term memory (LTM)

Recognition

a measure of retention that involves identifying the correct information from among alternatives

Recall

a measure of retention that involves reproducing information that has been stored in memory; see cued recall, free recall and serial recall.