Psychology GCSE
Context-dependent memory
What Context-dependent memory means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Context-dependent memory
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Reference: AQA
Recall is better when the environment at recall matches the environment at learning, known as context-dependent forgetting when they differ.
Topics that use Context-dependent memory
- Memory (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Capacity
- Classifying examples by content
- Coding
- Distinguishing stores by feature
- Duration
- Effect of delay
- Effort after meaning
- Encoding
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