PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes -Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia, Thiamine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Will examine the interactions between how exactly a bit of information was learned and how it is retrieved later on. Familiarity will be addressed, what causes this. When you are learning, you"re making connections between the newly acquired materi- al and other representations already in your memory the connections serve as retrieval paths which have a starting point and an ending point. You may not be trying to reach that end point or you may not be close to the beginning point, so this path may not help you. Godden and baddelay asked scuba divers to learn materials in the water and on land the context influences what thoughts come to mind for the divers, which will influence the connections they make. Divers who learn material while underwater remember material best if tested underwa- ter because this will increase the chance that they will be able to use the memory con- nections the established earlier.