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3) Grant et al
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- 1what is context dependant memory?-The idea that when a to be remembered item is stored other pieces of information are stored with it and when the context as encoding is and retrieval are the same, it improves recall of specific item
- 2What was the aim of Grant's study?-to test for context dependency effects cause by the presence of absense of noice during learning and retrieval of meaningful material
- 3What was the research method?-lab experiment
- 4What was the designIndependent meausres
- 5What were the two independent variables?-Whether the participants read the two page article under silent conditions or under noise conditions
-Whether the participants were tested under matching or mismatching conditions to when they first encoded the infromation - 6What was the dependent variable?-participants performance on a short answer recall test out of 10 and a multiple choice recall test out of 16
- 7Describe the sample-39
-17-56 yrs old (mean 23.4)
-17f, 23 males
-opportunity sampling
-they were recruited by opportunity sample in as eight members of a psychology laboratory class served as experimenters and each experimenter recruited fire acquaintances to serve as participants - 8Describe the controls in the procedure-exact copies of background noise; lunchtime at university cafeteria
-two page article on psychoimmunology
-10 short answer questions followed by 16 MC ques (short answer questions always administered first to ensure that recall of information form the article was being tested and not recall of information from the MC) - 9Briefly describe the procedure-instructions given to participants; telling them participants was voluntary
-read article once; allowed to highlight and underline
-they all wore headphones
-some heard no noise, others heard background noise
-reading times recorded
-approximately two minute break
- - 10What were the results?-Silent, silent 80%
-Noisy, noisy 79%
-Silent, noisy 67%
-noisy, silent 70% - 11What conclusions can be made?-studying can be more effective if done in the same condition as when memory is recalled
-noise does not effect studying, it is whether the noise is the same during learning and recall
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