As Psychology Godden and Baddeley PDF

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Godden and Baddeley (1975) ‘Deep sea divers’ Aims: To study the effect of the environment on recall and the effect of retrieval cues. They wanted to see specially if participants would have better recall when they learnt and recalled information in the same context. Procedure: Divers, 13 males, 5 female, participants were from a diving club. They were on a diving holiday in Scotland. Environment one; on land Environment two: underwater There were four conditions: Dry learning and wet recall, Wet learning and dry recall Dry learning and dry recall, Wet learning and wet recall There were 36 words of two/three syllables chosen randomly. Recall cues were used in two conditions. IV: whether the two contexts are the same or different DV: how many words are correctly recalled. Repeated measured design. Results Percentages recalled Learning environment Dry Wet

Recall environment dry 37 23

Recall environment wet 24 32

Conclusion Context is a retrieval cue, and when the cognitive environment is the same at recall and learning recall will be higher. Evaluation Clearly controlled experiment High reliability Some ecological validity Artificial situation, means results might not be valid Results still showed a lot of forgetting....