Marian and Neisser (2000)

Question 1

Cross-cultural

Answer 1

The therapist is from a different culture from the patient. Therapists adapt
therapeutic methods that have been shown to be effective to meet the cultural needs of the
patient.

Question 2

Indigenous psychotherapy

Answer 2

therapies embedded within a culture and do not include anyone from
outside the culture, carried out by someone who is sanctioned within the community to be a
therapist

Question 3

Aim

Answer 3

carried out an experiment to study the role of one’s native language in cue-dependent
memory. They wanted to find out to what extent memories are easier to access when we attempt
to access them in the language in which they happened

Question 4

Procedure

Answer 4

• Students that immigrated to the US that were bilingual in Russian and English asked to
  recall autobiographical information from either before or after they immigrated.
• Given series of prompts: Set 1 involved summer, neighbors, birthday, cat, doctor, getting
  lost, frightened, bride and set 2 was snow, friends, holiday, dog, blood, contest, laughing,
  neighbors.
• Set 1 was asked in Russian or English and Set 2 was asked I the opposite language of set
  1
• Some participants asked for memories from their childhood either before or after
  immigration

Question 5

Results

Answer 5

Supported the hypothesis of language-dependent recall meaning that participants
remembered more from the part of their life before immigration when asked in Russian
and more about after immigration when asked in English

Question 6

Evaluation

Answer 6

Control over order effects, supports the theory it was trying to improve
- Small and specific sample size which may not be able to represent entire population
- Low ecological validity