Grant Et Al

Question 1

What was the DV?

Answer 1

How well they scored in both the recall and recognition tests

Question 2

What is context-dependency?

Answer 2

Where the being in the same context in the retrieval as the encoding enhances memory

Question 3

What is the recall test?

Answer 3

Short answer test - without cues

Question 4

What is the recognition test?

Answer 4

Multiple choice test with 4 answers - with cues

Question 5

How many participants were there?

Answer 5

40

Question 6

How many results were there?

Answer 6

39 (1 was pulled out because he scored too low)

Question 7

What were the 4 conditions?

Answer 7

Silent - silent
Silent - noisy
Noisy - silent
Noisy - noisy

Question 8

Who were the experimenters?

Answer 8

8 members of a psychology class

Question 9

How many people did the experimenter recruit?

Answer 9

5 people as participants

Question 10

What sampling method was used?

Answer 10

Opportunity (experimenters)

Snowball (participant)

Question 11

What was the age range for participants?

Answer 11

17-56 years old

Question 12

What was the mean age of the 39 participants

Answer 12

23.4

Question 13

How many males were there?

Answer 13

23

Question 14

How many females were there?

Answer 14

17

Question 15

What was the noise through my headphones?

Answer 15

Background noise of a lunch time - complete sentences weren’t audible only words or phrases.

Question 16

What article was selected to be read?

Answer 16

Psyco immunology

Question 17

How big was the article?

Answer 17

2 pages of 3 columns

Question 18

How many multiple choice questions were there?

Answer 18

16

Question 19

How many short answer questions were there?

Answer 19

10

Question 20

How were the questions ordered?

Answer 20

The order in which the information was presented in the article is the same order in which the questions appear

Question 21

Which came first the recall or recognition test?

Answer 21

The recall (short answer)

Question 22

Why was the recall first?

Answer 22

To ensure the answers were being recalled from the article and not from the multiple choice

Question 23

What marking were participants allowed to leave?

Answer 23

Highlighters and under line

Question 24

Was there a buffer phase?

Answer 24

There was a buffer of 2 minutes between the end of the study phase and the test phase

Question 25

How long did the procedure last?

Answer 25

30 mins approx

Question 26

What was the IV?

Answer 26

Whether they recalled in the matching condition or the mis-matching condition

Question 27

What was the background/context?

Answer 27

If context dependent memory links to improved recall of importation

Question 28

What was the theme?

Answer 28

Memory recall

Question 29

What was the method used?

Answer 29

Lab experiment

Question 30

What was the type of data collected?

Answer 30

Quantitative

Question 31

What were the two types of quantitative data collected?

Answer 31

Mean reading time

Mean sore in the two tests

Question 32

What was the level of data collected?

Answer 32

Interval ratio data - because the intervals between the scores are the exact same

Question 33

What was the experimental design they used?

Answer 33

Independent measures design - each participant only saw one condition

Question 34

How was the data analysed?

Answer 34

ANOVA - analysis of variance (used for multiple conditions)

Mean + standard deviation

Question 35

What were the findings in the multiple choice test?

Answer 35

In the same conditions mean scores of 14.3 and if different conditions mean score of 12.7

Question 36

What were the findings in the recall test?

Answer 36

SS - 6.7
SN - 4.6
NS - 5.4
NN - 6.2

Question 37

What were the conclusions from this experiment?

Answer 37

Informations best recalled in the same conditions it’s learnt in

No significant affect of noise on performance as long as their matching conditions

Question 38

Key themes and ares of psychology

Answer 38

Memory and how to improve it - noise effect - context

Question 39

Internal validity?

Answer 39

Low - lab setting = artificial behaviour

However it does measure memory and that’s what it intends to measure

Question 40

Population validity?

Answer 40

Small sample size so it’s not very valid

Question 41

Population validity

Answer 41

Yes because this can be applied to all USA smart psyc pupils. However it can’t generalise it to young or old people of different cultures.

Question 42

Ecological validity

Answer 42

Lab setting = artificial behaviour
Demand characteristics.
Artificial stress, panic and the desire to please the teacher.

Question 43

Test-retest?

Answer 43

Standard procedures
Lab setting

These make it replicable

Question 44

Informed consent

Answer 44

There was consent but it wasn’t informed, partially informed

Question 45

Right to withdraw?

Answer 45

Could drop if they wanted to - however they were her students so may have get obliged to take part

Question 46

Confidentiality

Answer 46

It was all anonymous

Question 47

Protection of protections

Answer 47

Protection of participants, the one participant who was pulled out may have felt embarrassed for scoring so bad

Question 48

Debrief

Answer 48

They were fully debriefed at the end

Question 49

Deception

Answer 49

Were deceived about the matched + mismatched conditions. Reduced demand characteristics

Question 50

Usefulness of research

Answer 50

Students revising for exams, matched conditions = success

Question 51

Psyc as a science

Answer 51

Experiment - cause and effect:

IV + DV
Controls
Standardised

• collected quantitative data
• Easy to repeat

Question 52

Individual/situational

Answer 52

Situations effect memory - under which you revise.