Ecological validity

Question 1

What is context dependent memory?

Answer 1

Context -dependent memory concerns whether people recall information better if they are in the place where it was originally learnt

Question 2

What was the garden and badly deep sea diving study

Answer 2

This studied the effect in divers who learned a word list underwater

Question 3

To assess the ecological validity of a study what questions would we need to ask?

Answer 3

What was the environment what was the task how was the D the assessed were the participants aware they were being studied?

Question 4

What is the weapon focus effect

Answer 4

Eyewitnesses are often not good at identifying criminals and one hypothesis was that they were focusing on the weapon rather than the criminal

Question 5

Johnson and Scott experiment involved two groups who weighted outside our room and during that time heard a heated discussion followed by a man rushing through the room for one group of participants the man was holding a pen and grease on his hands and the other group the man was holding a paper knife covered in blood. Which participant group recalled the man’s face from photographs more accurately?

Answer 5

The second groups recall was only 33% which suggests they were distracted by the weapon

Question 6

Why was the Johnson and Scott experiment an experiment

Answer 6

Because there was an independent variable and a dependent variable