Grant - Memory

Question 1

What is the basic assumption of cognitive psychology?

Answer 1

• behavoir is controlled by our internal thought processes.
• it explains in terms of how the mind operates.
• the mind works like a computer - information processing approach : inputting, storing, retrieval.

Question 2

What is context dependent memory?

Answer 2

• the recall of information is influenced by the context in which is was learned
• recall is often more effective when the environment at retrieval matches the environment where the information was learned.

Question 3

What is the environmental context dependency effect?

Answer 3

small background details present during learning, even if they are not important, can still be stored in memory and later help trigger recall of the main information.

Question 4

What is the conclusion for grants study?

Answer 4

Environmental context dependency effects occur for newly learned meaningful material.
- both recognition and recall are affected by environmental context dependency effects.
- background noise doesn’t have any effect on studying.