Memory retrieval tries to find and use memories in memory store {accessibility, memory}, but memories can be unavailable.
People typically can apprehend up to six or seven items {span of apprehension, memory} {apprehension span, memory}|.
Memories are in memory store {availability, memory}, but memories can be inaccessible.
People typically have poor time and location {episodic tag} recall. People forget time and location before other content. Weak or missing episodic tags reduce fact or episode memory organization, causing more recall errors.
In memory tests, conscious and unconscious processing can happen. Processing task has automatic/unconscious and controlled/conscious processing components, which affect behavior differently {process dissociation procedure} [Jacoby, 1991] [Reingold and Merikle, 1990]. Perhaps, they are separable {process purity problem} {method of opposition} {opposition method}.
Amnesia is greater for more recent memories {Ribot's law} {Ribot law}.
Memories are representations that are made, stored, and retrieved {stage analysis}.
People can will not to remember {voluntary suppression, memory}. Perhaps, it involves frontal lobes and hippocampus.
Memories that are semantically contradictory can co-exist non-consciously {co-existence hypothesis, memory}. Mind inhibits recall of semantically contradictory non-conscious memories.
New memory can erase semantically contradictory non-conscious memory {erasure hypothesis, memory}, to conserve limited memory capacity.
During list recall, people recall first items better {primacy effect}. For long list, people recall most words poorly. People recall items in middle worst.
behaviorism
By behaviorism, all previous words excite all following words and so associations for middle words are least correct, because they get the most-incorrect associations.
cognition
By cognition, mind rehearses first words when short-term memory is not full and so remembers them better, but middle words have poor rehearsal because they happen when short-term memory is full and so are not in short-term memory ready for recall.
People recall items at end {recency effect} best under free recall but not under order recall. Auditory items have recency effect but not visual items. For long list, people recall most words poorly. People recall items in middle worst.
behaviorism
By behaviorism, all previous words excite all following words and so associations for middle words are least correct, because they get the most-incorrect associations.
cognition
By cognition, last words are still in short-term memory and memory can recall them right away. For middle words, short-term memory is full, rehearsal is poor, and words have left short-term memory by recall time.
memory
Recency effects happen even when mind uses no short-term memory, only long-term memory.
Perhaps, relevant local and global inferences relate to content, causes, situations, and goals {constructionist theory}.
Perhaps, mind makes only familiar inferences and inferences needed for sentence coherence {minimalist theory}.
Perhaps, mind always generates inferences {promiscuous theory}, but this can exceed processing capacity.
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