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Background |
Grant et El is about trying to find out if we remember something in the same environment we learnt it in |
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Aim |
To test the effect of noise as a source of context on the studying and retrieval of meaningful material in an academic context. |
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Participants |
8 members of a psychology laboratory class served as experimenters.
Experimenters recruited 5 participants each.
39/40 participants joined
Aged between 17-56 years
Very male heavy (23m, 17fm)
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Design |
Independent measures design
Each experimenter ran one participant for each of the four conditions
Participants randomly assigned Their participants to the condition |
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Design 2 |
4 Test conditions: Study:silent Test: silent
Study: noisy Test noisy
Study: noisy Test: silent
Study: silent Test: noisy |
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Materials |
Each of the experimenters provided:
Headphones Cassette (8 in total) An article on psycho immunology A tape with the sound of a noisy cafeteria
* care was taken to make sure the tape did not include full sentences, just the general noise of plates and chairs moving* |
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Questions |
The article was 2 pages long
The questions consisted of 16 multiple choice and 10 short answer questions |
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Procedure |
Instructions read aloud
Participation was voluntary
Participants were allowed to highlight and underline parts of the text
Participants in a silent condition were told they would not hear anything over the headphones |
