PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia, Thiamine
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Learning = making connections between new material and other knowledge in your memory. This makes it possible to find the new knowledge later. : dependent on the state one is in during acquisition. If person learns information underwater, he will think thoughts that are linked to the situation: this forms memory connections between the info he is leaning and his thoughts about the context. By returning the diver to this situation, he will think the context thoughts, triggering the connected target materials. If diver learned on land then was put into the water, he would not have these context thoughts so he would not have these additional triggers for the knowledge he had learnt. Changes in your approach to the memory materials. Context reinstatement: recreating the context that was in place during learning so that memory functions can be improved. This only has effect because it influences how you think about the materials to be remembered.
