PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Speaker Types, Implicit Memory
11 Apr 2013
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Chapter 6 interconnections between acquisition and retrieval. When you are learning you"re making connections b/w the newly acquired material and other representations already in your memory. Retrieval paths have a starting point and an ending point. State-dependent learning: a phenomenon in which learning seems linked to the person"s mental, emotional, or biological state during the learning. As a result of this linkage, the learning is most likely to show its effects when the person is again in that mental, emotional, or biological state. In an experiment preformed on divers those who learned underwater and were tested in the same environment performed better than those who learned underwater and were tested on land. This is presumably b/c being in the same environment during learning and testing allows for you to recall the connections you make during learning while being tested (such as connections to feeling cold underwater).
