Godden and Baddeley's study of context

• Aim-

  See If the context of learning and recall has an impact on how many words we remember
• Method-

  • 18 participants who were divers
  • Given a list of 36 unrelated words to learn
  • Then tested to see how many they could recall
  • Listened to the words in two conditions- beach and water
  • Recalled in two conditions- beach and water
• Results-

  Divers remembered most words when the learning and recall environments matched

  e.g, listened and recalled on beach and beach or ocean and ocean
• Conclusion-

  Learning and recalling information in the same context improves the accuracy of memory.
• Evaluation point 1

  • Strength- Research on impact of context has helped police when interviewing witnesses
  • Police can tame witnesses back to the scene of the crime to refresh their memory