Unleveled Psychology Memory Project

This podcast will include both Henry’s and my memories of being at the basketball court. In order to remember the events, we both went back to the scene and acted out what happened. We asked each other many questions, including things about the weather, placement of bodies, outcome, and other key details. These were context dependent memories because going back to the location of occurrence easily triggered them. Having the same smell, sound, visual, and paying greater attention to the event can also trigger context dependent memories. By discovering specific places around campus where we have memories, we were able to remember great detail by being present in the certain spot. While at these locations, we were able to retrieve, or locate, the stored information in our brains. Once locating it, we were able to return it to conscious thought and explain to others what happened.