PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Processing Fluency, Encephalitis, Thiamine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Roderick Barron

Document Summary

Putting information into long-term memory helps you only if you can. Nov. 2nd, 2015 retrieve that information later on. There is a connection between the way you put information into memory and the way you take it out. When you are learning, you are making connections between the newly acquired material and other representations already in your memory. These connections make the new information findable later on. Connections serve as retrieval paths: when you want to locate information in memory, you travel on those paths, moving from one memory to the next until you reach the target material. There are many studies on context-dependent learning. Learn while underwater and test while underwater: better performance is expected if: Or learn on land and test on land. Another study: half participants read article in quiet setting, and other half in loud setting: when tested: Those who read it in a quiet setting did best when tested in a quiet setting.