ABSTRACT
The Search of Associative Memory (SAM) model of memory is the first global matching memory model. It is the first to propose that retrieval cues are compared to the entirety of everything in one's memory. This chapter discusses an auxiliary assumption of the SAM model. It also considers the possibility that retrieval practice may selectively affect the recovery process. The three retrieval practice paradigms it currently considers are the testing effect, the think/no-think paradigm, and retrieval induced forgetting. Retrieval practice paradigms pose a serious challenge to the interference view of forgetting. The retrieval induced forgetting (RIF) paradigm was developed to examine inhibition processes in memory. The RIF presents subjects with word pairs to study and the final phase uses cued-recall. Finally, the chapter proposes a natural extension of the global match models that produces item specific effects the SAM-RI model decouples the memory strengths that underlie the sampling process from the memory strengths.
