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Flashcards by Dhara Bechra, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Dhara Bechra
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Grant et al. (1998) - Context-dependent Memory | Do we remember information learned better in the context in which we learned it? |
| Aims & Research Questions | Investigate whether context cues are important when remembering newly learned information. Whether learned info is remembered in matching or non-matching environment. To test for context-dependency effects caused by presence or absence or noise during learning and retrieval. |
| Research Method | Lab Experiment Independent Design IV: whether study and testing conditions were matching or not. DV: recall- short answer test 10 Q's Retrieval- multiple choice test 16 Q's |
| Sample | Opportunity sample 39 students from Iowa state university Aged 17-56 17 females, 23 males |
| Procedure | Students tested one at a time 8 experimenters and 4 experimental conditions: - Learn in silence, recall in silence - Learn in silence, recall in noise - Learn in noise, recall in silence - Learn in noise, recall in noise |
| Procedure (2) | Pp's in all conditions wore headphones: - Noisy condition, pp heard recording of noise in cafe - played moderate loud level - Silent condition, pp heard nothing |
| Procedure (3) | Pp's read 2-page article on psychoimmunology- told they would be tested on it. Allowed to highlight and underline as normal. Test involved 10 short-answer Q's and 16 multiple choice Q's. |
| Procedure (4) | Time taken for pp's to read article was recorded for each pp. 2 min break between reading and test. Pp's randomly allocated to each of 4 conditions. |
| Results | . |
| Results (2) | Found that more information was remembered in the matching conditions than the non-matching recall conditions. |
| Conclusions | Context cues are important in retrieval of newly learned information. This suggests that students would perform better in exams by studying in silence. |
| Evaluation | Quantitative data collected. No ethical issues High EV - represents real life situations Replicable- standardised |
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