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A Study of Context Dependency - How encoding and retrieving in different contexts affects the memory of students in a word recall test.
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Jenna Brough 1E2 A Study of Context Dependency - How encoding and retrieving in different contexts affects the memory of students in a word recall test. Introduction Background Research: Cognitive psychologist's are interested in internal mental processes such as memory. According to the cue dependency theory information in our memory is available but not accessible. People need a suitable retrieval cue in order to trigger the memory. Cue dependancy is divided into two types, I'm studying context dependancy. This works with external cues, the environment in which information is encoded and retrieved affects how good a person's memory is. A person's memory is best when they encode and retrieve information in the same environment. Godden and Baddeley's Diver's Study (1975) Godden and Baddeley's aim was to see if encoding words in an environment and retrieving in the same environment would make a person recall information better than if they retrieved in a different environment to which they...
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