Caitlin Rooney and lia stapinski section 2

Unleveled psychology memory project

Walking around Duxbury High School, we stopped at the art room. Caitlin remembered that a memory she had from art club last year in the art room. She remembered that her friend Kyla made a silk painting and had showed it to her while she was making a color wheel. Caitlin stood outside of the art room because there was a class, but being near the art room, she was able to remember in more detail. She remembered what was on the silk and remembered what color it was. She remembered that there were four guitars one one each side. There were piano keys in a circle and musical notes around the keys. Also there were american flags. She said it felt happy and sad at the same time to remember that. It was happy because she was with her best friend and sad because she is now a senior and will be graduating soon. She might not have time to come back to high school at that room when she is in college. Caitlin would not have remember some of that stuff if we had not stopped by the art room. This was a context dependent memory because she had to go to the art room to remember that memory. By standing in the art room she remembered the exact color, pattern, etc of the silk painting that she would not have not otherwise remembered if she was not standing there. Her memory was better because she was in the same place as she had been during the event.