AUPSY102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Spreading Activation, Episodic Memory, Amygdala
19 Apr 2017
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A pattern of data in which materials learned in one setting are well remembered when the person returns to that same setting , but are less well remembered in other settings. Our retrieval works more efficiently when we are tested in the same setting in which we learned in (familiarity, comfort, etc. ) Setting includes: scent, noise level, room, temperature. Context reinstatement - a procedure in which a person is led to the same mental and emotional state he or she was in during a previous event; can often promote accurate recollection of that event. Tells us that what you encode is specific to physical stimulus and context. People learn the whole rather than the parts. Learning involves the creation/strengthening of memory connections. Nodes - an individual unit within an associative network. In a scheme using local representations nodes represent single ideas or concepts.
