Cognative - Grant / Simon and Chabris

Question 1

What was the background for Grant?

Answer 1

To test context dependant memory

Question 2

What is context dependent memory (grant) ?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What was the aim of Grants study?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What was the sample in grants study ?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What was the method of grant’s study ?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

What where the conditions (grant) ?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

What were the results of the grant study?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What was the background/aim of Simon and Chabris?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is the sample for Simon and Chabris ?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What was the method of Simon and Chabris?

Answer 10

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 )

Question 11

What were the results of Simon and chabris?

Answer 11

.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