Godden and Baddeley Evaluation

Godden and Baddeley Evaluation

1. The study took place in a real life setting and so had greater ecological validity than laboratory research

2. The procedure in learning unrelated words is not an everyday and so lacks mundane realism

3. The study's conclusions have been reinforced by others e.g. Abernathy who found that learning and recall in the same classroom improves memory

4. The study has practical applications for education advising students to improve recall by reinstating the learning context for exams

5. It can also be used to help police investigations by getting them to interview witnesses in the same environment to the event they saw

6. There was a lack of control over some of the procedure such as equipment failure which could have effected the results

7. This lack of control such as over weather conditions makes it improbable that the study could be replicated and get the same results

8. The sample were all from the same diving club which might affect generalisabiltiy