Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning, Procedural Memory, Explicit Memory

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

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Three functions of memory encoding: putting things in memory attentional and/or processing limits storage knowledge representation memory for procedures, facts, etc. retrieval remembering things using information. Tversky (1973): students do best when they take the exam they expected (ie. if they prepped for essay exam and actually got an essay exam vs. getting a multiple choice exam after prepping for essay exam) Context matters retrieval increases as the match between encoding and retrieval increases place, state related information semantic context level of processing performance increases because you increase the probability of contacting the associated retrieval cues. State dependent learning you recall things better in the same state or environment in which you origianlly learned them different room. Smith (1979) people learned words in one room later, half of the participants were tested in the same room, the other half were tested in a different room.