PSYC 2740 Chapter 6: PSYCH 2750 - CHAPTER 6

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Putting information into ltm helps you only if you are able to retrieve this information later on. There are different ways to retrieve information (e. g. recall or recognition) When you are learning, it is said that you are making connections between the new acquired information and other representations and memories that is already stored in your memory. Speci cally, the connections serve as retrieval paths: when you want to locate information in your memory, you travel through these paths, moving from one memory to the next until you reach the targeted material. However like any path they each have a starting point (a) and ending point (b). this is helpful if you want to get this point but what happens if you want to get to point. B from another path? ex: analogy: highway driving paths to reach a destination.