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===Role of Semantics in Encoding Specificity===
===Encoding Specificity and the Immediate Environment===
Multiple studies have shown a dependence on context of one's environment as an aid to recall specific items and events.
====Physical Environment====
Several experiments have revealed context-dependency effects for the encoding specificity principle. D.R. Godden and A.D. Baddeley (1975) wished to research if the physical environment in which an event occurs is part of the memory representation for that event. They hypothesize that a change in environments between encoding and retrieval would be detrimental to memory due to an encoding-retrieval mismatch. Eighteen subjects participated in their study – 13 male and five female members of a university diving club. Five lists of words were recorded on tape; each comprised of 36 unrelated words chosen at random. Divers encoded the words either underwater or on a beach. Later, recall was tested in the environment of original encoding or the alternative environment. The researchers’ results supported the encoding specificity principle: what was learned on the beach was better recalled on the beach, and vice versa.
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