Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Lexical Decision Task, Psych, The Sequence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Putting information into long-term memory helps you only if you can retrieve that information later on. Different ways of retrieving information: recall or recognize. Context-dependent learning: a pattern of data in which materials learned in one setting are well remembered when the person returns to that setting, but are less well remembered in other settings. If it was cold underwater, then he is more likely to think cold related thoughts. Context reinstatement a strategy of re-creating the thoughts and feelings of the lea(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g episode e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if, at the ti(cid:373)e of (cid:396)e(cid:272)all, (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e i(cid:374) a (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) diffe(cid:396)ent place. What"s p(cid:396)ese(cid:396)(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) is so(cid:373)e (cid:396)e(cid:272)o(cid:396)d of the ta(cid:396)get (cid:373)ate(cid:396)ial (cid:894)i. e. , the i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e fo(cid:272)usi(cid:374)g o(cid:374)(cid:895) and also some record of the connections you established during learning. Your brain contains target information and connections. These connections help you interpret the meaning of what is remembered.