Psychology 3130A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Context-Dependent Memory, City Block, Linear Combination

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3130A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

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Domain general construct: operates according to the same principles whether or not the objects or ideas that are being compared are visual, auditory, lexical, directly perceived, or recalled from meory. Object recognition: assessment of similarity between the incoming perceptual representation and mental representations stored in memory, objects recognized as a function of their simiarlity to stored patterns of known/previously seen objects. Organized conceptually: retrival cue must contact the most similar representations in memory, memory retrieval errors are a function of similarity. Retrieve wrong, but similar memory: spreading activation. Occurs when a single target concept is activated. Activation spreads to toher related concepts: lexical decision task. Task in which letter strings that are either words or non-words are presented visually to a subject. Respond w/judgment of whether the string is a word or not. Faster reaction time if words are similar (fork, knife: minerva2. Similarity between memory traces is a major component of memory retrieval.