method

• Method: Their sample comprised 18 participants (13 males and 5 females) from a university diving club, who were divided into four conditions:
• 1. learning words on land and recalling on land;
• 2) learning words on land and recalling underwater;
• 3) learning underwater and recalling underwater; and
• 4) learning underwater and recalling on land. The experiment was a repeated measures design with each participant taking part in all four conditions, over four separate days.
• In all four conditions participants were presented with 38 words, which they heard twice. After hearing all 38 words the participants were instructed to write all the words they could remember, in any order.