PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lexical Decision Task, Episodic Memory, Spreading Activation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Harvey Marmurek

Document Summary

Examining interactions between how exactly a bit of information was learned and how it is retrieved later on. Connections in your memory serve as retrieval paths: when you want to locate information in memory, you travel on those paths to your target. Before performance when you learn in the same conditions you will be tested in. What matters is not the physical context but the psychological one. Changes in your approach to the memory materials. Performance is best if your state at the time of testing matches your state at the time of learning. Context reinstatement improved memory performance if we re-create the context that was in place during learning. Advantage for deep processing is overturned for the sound hint. If context left no trace in memory there would be no way for a return to the context to influence participants later.