Godden & Baddeley '75
Godden and Baddeley 1975
Context dependent memory experiment
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- Godden & Baddeley '75
- Aim
- to investigate whether a natural environment can act as a cue for recall
- Procedure
- 18 participants from university diving club
- learn a list of 38 unrelated words
- learn on dry recall underwater (+reversed)
- learn dry recall dry (reverse underwater)
- conducted over 4 days 24 hour delay for each condition
- Results
- 50% higher in same learnt and recall environment
- higher for land (13.5 instead of 11.4)
- 50% higher in same learnt and recall environment
- Conclusion
- environment can act as a contextual cue for recall
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- realistic setting - generalisable
- no cheating
- Weaknesses
- lack of control - equipment failure
- interference memory
- low validity - not standardised
- Strengths
- Aim
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