AO3 EXP

• Goodwin et al ( 1969 ):

  • aim: investigated the effect of alcohol on state-dependent retrieval
  • Procedure: information was given to participants while drunk, and then tested while sober then drunk 24hrs after
• Godden & Baddeley ( 1975 ):

  Aim: To investigate the effects of context cues on recall

  Procedure: 18 divers had to recall a word list in a mixture of 2 conditions: underwater and on land
• Godden & Baddeley ( 1975 ):

  • Pros:

  showed that external cues had affects

  • Cons

  low ecological validity - real life memories are alot more complex

  unfair conditions - the group that had to change environment were disrupted
• McGeoch and McDonald’s (1931):

  Aim: investigate the effect of new memories on previously learned information

  Procedure: 6 groups of participants were asked to remember an artificial word list then each group got a different word list to remember
• Godden & Baddeley (1975):

  • Results: those that had to recall in the same environment had higher recall rate thus concluding contextual interference
• Goodwin et al (1969):

  • Results: participants had a higher recall rate when in the same state of when they recieve the information (drunk) thus concluding, state dependent interference
• Mcgeoch and Mcdonald (1931):

  Results: the group with synonyms or close phonetic terms had the lowest rate of recall, group with numbers had the highest recall