Context Dependent Memory Discussion Chapter

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quiet room than in a noisy room.

Participants

Forty eight students attending to a class were participated and reported their first languages and their ages.

Materials

Twenty words were used to understand the nature of a context-based memory retrieval task. The list of the words is {Prisoner, Biology, Journalist, Child, Search, Dirt, Calculator, Egg, Relationship, Urgent, Age, Freedom, Huge, Employ, Population, Laughter, Injure, Machinery, Violent, and Nature}.

The list of words was shown to the participant for 1 minute in a quiet classroom. Accordingly, the participants were given 2 minutes to write the words in any order. In the first experiment, the room was quiet while the participants were retrieving the words whereas the noise condition of room (i.e., noise room) was changed in the second experiment. In the second experiment, other procedures were exactly the same as first experiment.

Design

The design parameters are the word retrieval in a quiet room vs. In a noisy room. In order to compare the current findings with the related literature, the first language was chosen as the second design parameter.


Since all the participants of two experiments were the same people, within subjects design was chosen for the statistical analysis. F test was chosen with the p

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