Grant

• Grant background

  Context dependant memory- Godden and Baddeley
• Grant aim

  To investigate context dependant effects on both recall ad recognition.

  Effects of noise as context on studying and retrieval
• Grant sample

  39 participants from age of 17-56, 17 female and 23 male

  8 members of psychology lab class were experimenters

  Opportunity sample each experimenter recruited 5 acquaintances
• Grant research method

  Laboratory experiment

  IV- verb in each condition

  DV- speed estimates in MPH
• Grant measures design

  Independent measures design
• Grant apparatus


  Cassette player and headphones

  Two page three columned article on psycho-immunology

  Recall test, recognition test
• Grant procedure


  Participant randomly allocated to the 4 conditions silent-silent, noisy-noisy, silent-noisy, noisy-silent

  Instructions describing experiment and stating it was voluntary

  Participants read the article once and were tested on it via short answer test followed by multiple choice

  While they read they had headphones on which was either silent or noisy noise and were informed before which one they would have

  Debriefed at end about the true aims
• Grant results

  In multiple choice matched conditions got the same mean of answers which was 14.3/16. The mis-matched conditions got the same mean too of 12.7/16

  In short answer questions matched conditions did better with scores of 6.7 and 6.2 compared to 5.4 and 4.6
• Grant conclusions

  -There are context dependant effects as there was no independent effect of noise on performance

  -Students are more likely to preform better in exams if they study in same conditions so silently

  -Studying and testing in same enviroment leads to enchanced performance.