Cognative - Grant / Simon and Chabris Flashcards

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What was the background for Grant?

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To test context dependant memory

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What is context dependent memory (grant) ?

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Remembering in the same context as your first encounter with what your remembering.

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What was the aim of Grants study?

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To investigate context dependant memory and the specific contexts eg silence.

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What was the sample in grants study ?

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39/40 participants (one left)
17 F / 23 M
age - 17 - 56

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What was the method of grant’s study ?

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Comprehension test, article read in one condition and questions answered in the next.

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What where the conditions (grant) ?

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.silent silent
.silent noise
.noist silent
.noisy noisy

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What were the results of the grant study?

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studying in the same environment leads to better results, however studying in silence is better then with noise.

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What was the background/aim of Simon and Chabris?

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To test intentional blindness, where the attention is diverted causing someone not to see something else.

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What is the sample for Simon and Chabris ?

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228 volunteers / 36 remover
16 groups of 12 individuals
students male and female

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What was the method of Simon and Chabris?

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Each group watched a certain condition with a different task watching basketball players asked to count number of passes (hard/easy), then asked if they noticed anything unusual (gorilla or umbrella )

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What were the results of Simon and chabris?

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.54% noticed unexpected even
.67% of participants noticed the unexpected event in the opaque condition, compared to only 42% in the transparent condition.
.64% vs 45% easy vs hard conditions

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