Chapter 5 - Grant el al

Question 1

What type of data collected?

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Answer 1

• Primary data
• Qualitative from short test answers
• Quantitive data from multiple choice answers

Question 2

What was the aim of this study?

Answer 2

To investigate “context-Dependent memory effects” on both recall and recognition.

Question 3

What did participants have to do in this study?

Answer 3

Participants had to read a two page article and were tested on recall which was operationalised by a short answer recall test, and recognition was operationalised by using a multiple choice test

Question 4

what was the participants role in the study?

Answer 4

8 psychology students were used to recruit 5 acquaintances each.

Question 5

What happened to 1 of the 40 students who took part?

Answer 5

data from one male in the silent study-silent test was discarded as his score was significantly low

Question 6

how many of each gender (of 40 participants) took part?

Answer 6

23 males , 17 females

Question 7

What were the test conditions?

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Answer 7

Silent Study - Silent Test
Silent Study - Noisy Test
Noisy Study - Noisy Test
Noisy Study - Silent Test

Question 8

What sound was played in the noisy conditions?

Answer 8

The noise was a recording of lunchtime in a university cafeteria

Question 9

What did the participants have to read?

Answer 9

A two page article on psychoimmunology

Question 10

What was the control when taking the tests?

Answer 10

The recall test was taken first to ensure that any information being recalled was from the reading of the text, not from the multiple choice test.

Question 11

How were the participants allocated to their conditions?

Answer 11

Each experimenter randomly allocated one of their five participants to each of the 4 conditions with the fifth participant being randomly allocated to a condition by the lead researcher.

Question 12

how long was the break between the break and study period?

Answer 12

2 minutes

Question 13

What was the mean number of correct answers in the silent test and silent study (short answer test?)

Answer 13

6.7 (out of 10)

Question 14

What was the mean number of correct answers in the silent test and noisy study (short answer test?)

Answer 14

5.4 (out of 10)

Question 15

What was the mean number of correct answers in the noisy test and silent study (short answer test?)

Answer 15

4.6 (out of 10)

Question 16

What was the mean number of correct answers in the noisy test and noisy study *short answer test?)

Answer 16

6.2 (out of 10)

Question 17

What was the mean number of correct answers in the silent test and silent study Multiple choice test?

Answer 17

14.3 (out of 16)

Question 18

What was the mean number of correct answers in the silent test and noisy study Multiple choice test?

Answer 18

12.7 (out of 16)

Question 19

What was the mean number of correct answers in the noisy test and silent study Multiple choice test?

Answer 19

12.7 (out of 16)

Question 20

What was the mean number of correct answers in the noisy test and noisy study Multiple choice test?

Answer 20

14.3 (out of 16)

Question 21

What was the conclusions of this study?

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Answer 21

• That there is context dependency effects for newly learned material
• Best performance was achieved when study and taking place in environments that have the same level of noise.