Godden and Baddeley's Study

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  • Godden and Baddeley's Study
    • Aim
      • To see whether context does improve recall
    • Method
      • 18 participants from a diving club had to learn a list of 38 words whilst they were underwater or on dry land.
        • Divers were randomly placed into four groups:  Group 1 - Learn on dry land, recall on dry land.   Group 2 - Learn in water, recall in water.   Group 3 - Learn on dry and recall in water.       Group 4 - Learn in water, recall on dry land
    • Results
      • It was found that recall was 50% higher when the words were recalled in the same place they were learnt.
    • Conlusion
      • This suggests that the context of the learning acts as a trigger or cue when trying to remember the information.
    • Evaluation
      • There was a lack of control over a lot of parts of this study which causes the results to lose validity.
      • The way they were testing memory was by using word lists. This is not a natural thing for our brains to do so cannot be compared to our day to day life.
      • The participants had to recall the words they had heard immediately. This is very specific which means this research only tells us about certain circumstances - short-term recall.

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