PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Encoding Specificity Principle, Endel Tulving

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Context reinstatement often useful in remembering; important in encoding and retrieving info (tulving and thomson) experiment demonstrates way in which info is encoded greatly influences retrieval of the info context = words as word pairs. Words from strongly associated word pairs in input stage (i. e. wasp-sting) best recognized when in company of same strongly associated word in recognition stage. Better than when target word (wasp) paired with another highly associated word (bee) that had not been seen in encoding phase. Words from weakly associated word pairs lead to better memory for one of the words in pair than does a strongly associated cue not encoded originally i. e. pool-ravine pool = better memory cue for ravine than abyss. Match between encoding context and retrieval context facilitate memory for target. Filler trials = new words and associations presented used in memory experiments to prevent response bias from subject.