Bongaerts, Luisa (2024) When to Use it, When to Lose it: The Effect of Retention Interval Cues on Memory Accessibility over Time. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
How we retrieve previously learned information is crucial in long-term memory research. One of the remaining questions is how the ‘temporal context’ prompted by the length of a memory retention interval influences this retrieval process. This ‘temporal context’ for memory retrieval has thus far been interpreted to help individuals leverage the knowledge of when information about an item or event was initially encountered during memory retrieval. We aim to investigate the cognitive strategies individuals employ when navigating temporal contexts during both the encoding and retrieval phases of memory and what strategies participants utilise to access temporal contextual information. Building upon prior work by Otten et al. (2006), which suggests that providing cues about retention intervals during encoding impacts later retrieval, and insights from Bright et al. (2022), indicating that during retrieval, individuals scan their mental timeline for relevant information, this study employs a continuous recognition task with two experimental variants, where cues informed the participant of the likely duration of the retention interval (short or long), either at encoding or at retrieval. Our findings reveal a significant influence of cue type on HR in the encoding variant and an emerging trend for a cue type effect on RT in the retrieval variant. These results support the notion that individuals employ distinct strategies during encoding and retrieval when using temporal contextual cues for memory retrieval. Ultimately, this study provides valuable insights into the potential advantages of utilising retention interval cues to facilitate memory retrieval.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Kruijne, W. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2024 08:37 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2024 08:37 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3588 |
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