PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Amygdala, Anterograde Amnesia, Morris Water Navigation Task

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens Pruessner

Document Summary

Retrieval cue: anything that helps the person sort through the data of the ltm to access the right information. They explain why it is easier to recognize than to recall information. Encoding specificity principle: any stimulus that is encoded along with an experience can trigger memory from the experience (tulving). When participants studied and were tested in the same room, they remembered better than those who studied in one room and were tested in another. This is known as context dependent memory, which can be based on things like physical location, odour or background music. Internal mood states or inebriation can facilitate the recovery of information from ltm. Enhancement of memory when internal states match during encoding and recall is known as state dependant memory. Eich (1975) study of state-dependent memory on marijuana use. There has been intensive effort to identify memory"s physical location. Lashley (engram) spent much of his time trying to localize memory.