Grant

Question 1

Grant

Answer 1

Context dependent memory

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

To investigate context- dependent memory effects on both recall and recognition

Question 3

Sample

Answer 3

-> 8 psychology students acted as experimenters and each recruited 5 acquaintances as participants, 39 participants (not included)

-> 17 females 13 males, 18-56 years old

Question 4

Procedure (study + test conditions)

Answer 4

Independent measures

Silent study | silent test
Silent study | noisy test
Noisy study | silent test
Noisy study | noisy test

Answer 5

-Participants read aloud standardized instructions that said tasks were a class project that were voluntary.
-They read the article, can highlight/color as they read.
-Each participant had to answer a short-answer and multiple-choice task.
-All participants wore headphones whilst reading.
-Silent condition - nothing heard.
-Noisy condition - loud background noise.
-Debrief after study.

Question 6

Results

Answer 6

Recall (short-answer)

•	Silent study:
•	Silent test: 6.7
•	Noisy test: 4.6
•	Noisy study:
•	Silent test: 5.4
•	Noisy test: 6.2

Recognition (multi-choice)

•	Silent study:
•	Silent test: 14.3
•	Noisy test: 12.7
•	Noisy study:
•	Silent test: 12.7
•	Noisy test: 14.3

Question 7

Conclusion

Answer 7

-> best performance when you study and test in the same environments
-> overall people best perform in silent conditions

Question 8

Strengths

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-Ethics: gained consent and had a debrief.
-Quantitative data: easily summarized.
-Controlled laboratory experiment, making it more valid, no extraneous variables.
-High reliability: controlled, would be replicable

Question 9

Weaknesses

Answer 9

-low ecological validity, wearing headphones in an exam, not typical exam conditions
-could be sampling ??bases?? Limiting generalisability
-based on western education