PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Implicit Memory, Prototype Theory, Autobiographical Memory
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Connections made when learning newly acquired material serve as retrieval paths. : same pattern if learning and testing take place in different rooms. Twist: students tested in different room than learning but were urged to think about learning room > performed as well as those with no room change. Context reinstatement: improved performance when context in place during learning is recreated. Context only has an effect because it influences how you think about material. Match effect better than level-of-processing effect, such that deep unmatched (17%) is inferior to shallow matched (26%) Encoding specificity: what you encode is specific to not only the physical stimulus but also the stimulus in combination with the context. If we learn "other" we would reply no if asked if we encountered "the" or "he. " Even if they are part of "other" we learn as a whole. Learning is an integrated experience, including the stimuli, as the perceiver understood it.
