PSYC 336 Lecture 7: 7.2 - Interconnections between Acquisition and Recognition II
7 Dec 2020
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Reported the same pattern if learning and testing took place in different rooms. In one version, participants were urged to think about the room in which they had learned. What it looked like, how it made them feel. Participants performed as well as those for whom there was no room change. Results psychological context matters more than physical context. You can get the benefits of context-dependent learning through context reinstatement. Recreating the thoughts and feelings of the learning episode even if you"re in a very different place at the time of recall. What matters for memory retrieval is mental context, not the physical environment. If the context left no trace in memory, there"d be no way for a return to the context to influence divers later. Can influence your search for target information. Can also change the meaning of what is remembered. Ex. reading the man lifted the piano or the man tuned the piano .
