Glanzer and Cunnitz (1966)

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To investigate if the interval between words in a list would increase the amount of words remembered at the beginning of a list

Question 2

Participants/Conditions

Answer 2

240 army enlisted men, split into 6 equal conditions. Each condition was given the same 20 one-syllable word list, however, there was 2 conditions with the interval of 3 seconds, 2 for 6 seconds, and 2 for 9 seconds. For each 2 conditions for each interval of seconds, there was an exact same condition except the world was repeated twice.

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

For all conditions, after every word was read out, they were given 2 minutes to write down every word they were able to recall.

Question 4

Results

Answer 4

The results indicated that the longer the interval between the words, the more words in general were able to be recalled, except for the words at the end of a list. This indicates the rehearsal effect in the multi-store memory modal. There was no significant difference in the conditions where the word was repeated twice when compared to when they were only said once.