#Encoding specificity principle a b tv

#Encoding specificity principle a b tv

The TV viewer is enabled to see this almost as if they are in his brain watching his recollection/retrieval. Although, what the video shows is Nathan recalling this event. As one can only imagine, this must have been a traumatic event. Nathan then jumps into the river, leaving his new wife atop the bridge in efforts to save his uncle and friend that are now sinking in the river. This car fell off a bridge and into a river. The other car involved included his uncle as the driver, and a high school friend as the passenger. Nathan, the character you will see in the video, was involved in a devastating car accident on the day of his wedding in the prior episode. Ashcraft, 6th edition, pg.113)Īt the bottom of this post I have included a link to a clip of a television show that I believe shows the location context in a way that sparks our memory. This study further enforces the encoding specificity principle. Therefore, we see that the divers who had the same context during encoding and retrieval had better memory than those who did not. Similarly, those who learned and recalled the list under water, did better than those who learned the list under water but recalled the list on land. The findings show that those who learned and recalled the list of words on land did better than those who learned the list on land but recalled the list under water. Half given a recall test in the same context/location they learned the list of words, and the other half given a recall test in the opposite context/location in which they learned them. This was then broken down further as each of those groups were cut in half once more. Half of the divers learned the list on land, and the other half learned the list under water. In a research study done by Godden and Baddeley, divers were taught a list of unrelated words. More specifically in this post, I will be discussing the external cue of location. Context of memories can vary from external cues such as location, to internal cues such as mood. Basically, we have better memory for an event if the context is the same when it happened and when we retrieve it (or try to remember it). The encoding specificity principle explains that the recall of an event is dependent on how the event was encoded at the time of the event, and how the event is encoded at the retrieval of the event.