Free Memory And Long Term Memory

Memory is the brain’s ability to collect, encrypt and retrieve information. There are three types of memory: sensory, short-term, and long term. Long-term memory is comprised of three types of retrieval: cued recall, free recall, and serial recall. Recall is the capacity to reiterate stored information.
State what the present study is about
Based on prior research we hypothesize: That there is greater recall in cued recall than in free recall.
Give a brief description of the methods(Participants, apparatus, procedure)
The results demonstrate no significance between the free memory and cued recall memory groups.

Differences in Cued Recall and Free Recall from Short and Long Term Memory
Memory is the brain’s ability to collect, encrypt and retrieve information. There are three types of memory: sensory, short-term, and long term. Sensory memory is the first step of memory. The brain takes in the information but does not store it for more than a few seconds. Short-term memory is the second step where the brain works on the information obtained from sensory memory. Sensory memory is not long-term, meaning it is not stored very long. Long-term memory is the brain’s ability to store short-term memory into information that can later be retrieved. Long-term memory does not have a length of time that it is stored. It is archived in the brain and can be retrieved minutes, days, and many years later after it is stored.
Long-term memory is comprised of three types of retrieval: cued recall, free recall, and serial recall. Recall is the capacity to reiterate stored information. Cued recall involves clues to help remember the needed information. Serial recall is retrieving information and repeating it in a specific order. F...

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...group had a different experimenter saying the words, meaning different emotions, expressions, speeds, and tone of voice. The (N=15) was also a small sample, a larger sample would mean data more representative of the population.
Future research should investigate how long after a list is given participants can recall the information. The experimenter should read words and further distract the participant. The participant would then be put into a free recall group or cued recall group to determine how long this information can be stored for and which group would do better. Future research can also investigate if emotion helps the participant’s ability to recall information. Once again the participant would be put into a free recall or cued recall group. The words would be read with different expressions and emotions to determine which group recalls more words.