PS260 Lecture 8: Class 4, Lecture 8, Chapter 6– Interconnections between Acquisition and Retrieval .docx
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Class 4, lecture 8, chapter 6 interconnections between. Recall that when we learn, we make connections between the newly acquired material and representations already in memory. These connections serve as retrieval paths when we need to remember the new material. State-dependent learning new material is most likely to be recalled when the person is in the same mental, emotional, or biological state as when the material was learned. For example, materials learned while on land are best recalled while on land, and materials learned while underwater are best recalled while underwater. Context reinstatement, or recreating the context that was present during learning, will improve memory performance: fisher & craik (1977) presented participants with word pairs and asked them to remember the second word. The first word served as context: the word pairs were either semantically related or rhymed, during testing, the prime words were presented as cues or hints.
