Grant et al (1998 - contemp) Context dependent memory

Grant et al (1998 - contemp) Context dependent memory

1. Background

   • they were interested in determining whether environmental context-dependency effects would be triggered with the types of materials and tests typically encountered in a school.
   • focus is more on study conditions than on differences in classroom testing conditions because they hold that students have more control over their study environments than over their test environments.
   • Observations had shown them that many high school and college students study material in environments very different from those in which they are tested: test environments typically quieter. Therefore, if context-dependency occurs with meaningful course material, students’ study habits could be harming their test performance.
   • aimed to show that environmental context can have a more positive effect on performance when the test takes place in the same environment in which the to-be-remembered material was originally studied (the matching condition) than when the test occurs in a different environment (mismatching condition).

2. aim = to test for context-dependency effects caused by the presence or absence of noise during the learning and retrieval of meaningful material in an academic context.

3. lab experiment

4. independent measures