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RF EVALUATION. - Coggle Diagram
RF EVALUATION.
Real world application.
- Retrieval cues can help someone to overcome issues of forgetting in everyday situation.
- Although cues are not 100% effective Baddeley suggests that are still worth paying attention to.
Smith 1979.
Showed that just thinking of the room where you did the original learning was as effective as actually being in he same room at the time of retrieval.
Research support.
- Large amount of research that supports the retrieval failure explanation.
- Eysenck and Keane 2010 argue that retrieval failure is perhaps the main reason for forgetting LTM.
- The evidence shows that it occurs in real-world situations as well as in the highly controlled conditions of the lab.
However...
- Baddeley 1997 argues the context effect are actually not very strong.
- Plus, the likelihood of learning stuff in one room and being tested in the same room are pretty low.
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Context depending cues.
- This study has limited ecological validity because the environment was familiar to the drivers but the task was artificial as we are not usually asked to learn a list of meaningless words in our everyday life.
- Another weakness is that the groups who learnt and recalled in different environments were disrupted (they had to change environment) whereas the groups who learnt and recalled in the same environment were not disrupted. This could have influenced their recall.
- However it was a controlled experiment so it can be replicated so reliability can be tested.
State depending cues.
- This study has limited ecological validity because the tasks performed by the participants were artificial therefore their performance might not reflect the way they would perform on tasks in every day life.
- The participants know that they were taking part in a study so they might have changed their behaviour (demand characteristics) to fit in with the aims of the study.
- However it was a controlled experiment so it can be replicated so reliability can be tested.