Grant

Question 1

What is the background to Grant’s study?

Answer 1

Godden and baddeley investigated the effect of context dependent memory, where divers learned lists of words underwater and above water, and recalled it in either condition. Results show that same place learning and recalling leads to better memory.

Question 2

What did grant aim?

Answer 2

Aimed to see if context dependency would be seen in relation to academic courses

Question 3

What was the sample like?

Answer 3

23 males, 17 females
Aged 17-56

Question 4

Describe the procedure

Answer 4

Stage one
Participants read a short article on pscyhoimmunology. They either read it while hearing cafeteria sounds through headphones, or in silence.

Stage two
After a two minute break, participants were given two sets of questions about the article, that they either had to answer in silence, or with background cafeteria noise through headphones.
The tests were a recall test with 10 questions, or a recognition test of 16

Question 5

What were the findings from grant?

Answer 5

Recall test
When read and recalled in silence, 6.7 words were remembered

Recognition
When read with noise, and recognised with noise, 14.3 were remembered