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<strong>Long</strong>-<strong>term</strong> <strong>Memory</strong><br />

• Tests of long-<strong>term</strong> memory<br />

– recognition<br />

• how to measure performance?<br />

– increased “hits” (saying old to targets) could be a bias to<br />

always say old<br />

– compare the hit rate to the false alarm rate (saying old to<br />

distractors / foils / lures)<br />

» If familiarity is compared to a criterion, bias and memory<br />

can be separated<br />

– free recall<br />

– cued-recall (paired associate learning)<br />

• study FLAG-SPOON, DRAWER-SWITCH, etc.<br />

• FLAG-______<br />

– results are similar to free recall

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