The affective context model is an account of memory holding that people remember how an experience made them feel, and draw on those emotional imprints to reconstruct memories on demand. It ties emotion directly to how memories are formed and later retrieved, treating the feelings that accompanied an experience as part of what becomes encoded and recalled along with the experience itself.
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Core ClaimThe affective context model holds that people encode and later retrieve memories partly through the emotional imprint an experience left, using that feeling as a retrieval cue. 1 Connections
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1. Learning Theory (Education) (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffective Context Model subsectionQuote, Affective Context Model subsection
People remember how things made them feel, and use those emotional imprints to create memories on demand.
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When was the affective context model first proposed, and by whom?
Multiple education sources describe the affective context model in identical general terms, that memories are encoded and later retrieved through the emotional imprint an experience left, but none of the pages this pass could fetch names the researcher who proposed it or the year it was first described.
What would resolve this A primary psychology or memory-research source naming the person who proposed the affective context model and the year it was first published.
Learning Theory (Education) (Wikipedia)
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