PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Lexical Decision Task, Parahippocampal Gyrus, The Sequence
22 Mar 2016
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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 are less well remembered in other settings. What matters is not the physical context but the psychological context. What"s preserved in memory is some record of the target material (i. e. , the information you"re focusing on) and also some record of the connections you established 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. As a result, these materials will be recognized as familiar, later on, only if the materials appear again in a similar context. Node: an individual unit within an associative network. These nodes are then tied to eat other via associations functional connections that are hypothesized to link nodes within a mental network; carriers of activation from one node to the next.
