Godden and Baddeley (1975)
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- Godden and Baddeley (1975)
- Aim
- To investigate whether a natural environment can act as a cue for recall
- Procedure
- 18 participants from a university diving club
- Learnt a list of 38 unrelated 2 or 3 syllable words underwater or on dry land
- Divers were randomly allocated to 1 of 4 conditions
- 1- learn on dry land, recall on dry land. 2- learn in water, recall in water. 3- learn on dry and recall in water. 4- learn in water, recall on dry land
- Took place in an open water site in Scotland
- Study was conducted over 4 days with 24hrs between each condition
- Divers were submerged 20 feet and were played a recording of word list. After 4 min delay, pp's had to write down words in 2 mins
- Study was conducted over 4 days with 24hrs between each condition
- Took place in an open water site in Scotland
- 1- learn on dry land, recall on dry land. 2- learn in water, recall in water. 3- learn on dry and recall in water. 4- learn in water, recall on dry land
- Divers were randomly allocated to 1 of 4 conditions
- Learnt a list of 38 unrelated 2 or 3 syllable words underwater or on dry land
- 18 participants from a university diving club
- Results
- Recall was 50% higher when it took place in the same environment as learning
- Mean number of words recalled on dry land learning and recall was 13.5
- Mean number of words for water learning and dry recall was 8.4
- Conclusion
- Environment can act as a contextual cue for recall
- Evaluation
- Experiment was conducted in a realistic open water environment for divers, so results have greater generalisability to real-life situations than lab research
- Ecological validity was high as it was conducted in a natural environment
- However, leaning/recalling words underwater is an unrealistic task
- Ecological validity was high as it was conducted in a natural environment
- There was a lack of control over many parts of the procedure
- Inconsistent diving location, equipment failure and lack of standardisation could all have affected the results
- Although it is unlikely pp's cheated, it is still a possibility as the researchers did not see them underwater
- It is possible the pp's who did not have to change location to recall the word list were able to rehearse more
- Although it is unlikely pp's cheated, it is still a possibility as the researchers did not see them underwater
- Inconsistent diving location, equipment failure and lack of standardisation could all have affected the results
- Experiment was conducted in a realistic open water environment for divers, so results have greater generalisability to real-life situations than lab research
- Aim
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