Connections Between Acquisition and Retrieval

Connections Between Acquisition and Retrieval

1. Learning as preparation for retrieval

   • retrieval paths: locating info in your memory
   • Context-Dependent learning: How does context influence data? Remember "cold-related" thoughts with the scuba diver.
   • Changes in your approach to the memory materials: Recall performance is best of 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.

2. Encoding Specificity

   • "What you encode is specific- not just the physical stimulus as it was encountered, but the stimulus together with its context."

3. The Memory Network

   • Memory connections deal with retrieval paths, guiding toward seeking for information.
     • Nodes
       • Associations or associative links
       • Activation Level
         • Nodes Response Threshold
           • Node then Fires
   • Spreading Activation
     • Semantic Printing
       • Memory cues and context restatement: insufficient activation received from one source can add to the insufficient activation received from another source.

4. Different forms of testin

   • memory testing
     • Recall
       • Recognition
   • Familiarity and source memory
     • memory depending on the connections we've been discussing all along.

5. Implicit Memory

   • Memory without awareness
     • Explicit and Implicit memories

6. Theoretical treatments of implicit memory

   • processing pathway
     • processing fluency
   • Nature of Familiarity
     • "Familiarity" is like a conclusion that you draw rather than a feeling triggered by a stimulus

7. Amnesia

   • Retrograde amnesia: caused by blows to the head- unable to recall events occuring before the blow
   • Anterograde amnesia: disruption in memories after the onset of amnesia
   • Explicit memory is independent of implicit memory
   • The best strategy for learning would be to use multiple perspectives

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