1&2- memory

• context and memory

  • role of env context in remembering was demonstrated by godden and baddeley- their work deep sea divers
  • friend was in charge of team divers watching behaviour of fish enter/ escape from trawl nets.
  • attempt to debrief divers on return to surface had disappoint results bc they forgot behaviour they had observed- only when recording obs underwater they produced accurate obs
  • following up, g&b asked divers listen to 40 unrelated words either on beach or in water- then tested to see how many words remembered
  • when in same environment had learned they rememembered far more words than in diff env
• follow up study to g&b

  • g&b trained divers in manual ask where they transferred nuts and bolts from 1 brass plate to another - task similar to what ppl do on boats etc
  • divers would learn to do these tasks on land then transfer to water- but outcomes of other study suggested this is not the best way to learn
  • in this fu experi 1 group learn task immediately underwater, other group practice on land first
  • shown that land based training impeded underwater performance. the first underwater run was worse than those who had no training at all