Bransford And Johnson

Question 1

Research questions

Answer 1

Does understanding a story improve memory for details?

Does repeatedly hearing the story help of there’s no understanding?

Question 2

Conditions

Answer 2

Context before
No context
No context 2
Context after
Partial context

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

1. Context before and partial context saw pictures
2. Everyone heard story
3. Two minute interval (context after saw picture)
4. Participants rated comprehensibility and wrote what they could recall

Question 4

Comprehensibility results

Answer 4

No context: 2
No context 2: 3.5
Context after: 3
Partial context: 3.5
Context before: 6

Question 5

Recall results

Answer 5

No context: 3.5
No context 2: 4
Context after: 3.5
Partial context: 4
Context before: 8