grant et al (1998)- context dependent memory

Question 1

research method

Answer 1

lab exp, independent measures design.
IVs: whether the p’s read 2 page article in silence/noise
whether the p’s were tested under matched or mismatched conditions

the dependent variable (DV) was the participant’s performance on (a) a short-answer recall test and (b) a multiple-choice recall test.

Question 2

sample

Answer 2

8 members of a psychology lab class
39 p's from ages 17-56

Question 3

outline procedure

Answer 3

(a) Each experimenter provided his/her own cassette player and headphones. The eight cassettes. ) A two-page, three-columned article on psychoimmunology (Hales,1984) was selected as the to-be-studied material.
(c) 16 multiple-choice questions, each consisting of a stem and four alternatives were generated, all of which tested memory for points stated in
the text. 10 short-answer questions were derived from those multiple-choice stems

At the end of the testing phase participants were debriefed concerning the purpose of the experiment.
- The entire procedure lasted about 30 minutes

Question 4

conclusions

Answer 4

There are context-dependency effects for newly learned meaningful material regardless of whether a short-answer test or a multiple-choice test
is used to assess learning.
• Studying and testing in the same environment leads to enhanced performance.