PSYB57H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Net., Semantic Memory, Anterograde Amnesia
Document Summary
When you are learning, you"re making connections between the newly acquired material and other representations already in your memory. These connections help you because they make the new knowledge findable later on. Specifically, the connections serve as retrieval paths: when want to locate information in memory, you travel on those paths, moving from one memory to the next until you reach the target material. Retrieval paths like any paths have a starting point and an ending point. Context-dependent learning: a pattern of data in which materials learned in one setting are well remembered when the person returns to that setting, but less well remembered in other settings. Changes in your approach to the memory materials. Context reinstatement: improved memory performance if we re-create the context that was in place during learning. Encoding specificity: the tendency, when memorizing, to place in memory both the materials to be learned and also some amount of the context of those materials.
