Imagery Vs Rote rehearsal

Memory has been the focus of psychology research since the beginning of psychology.

Investigators have focused on the structure of memory and factors that aid or inhibit the ability to store and retrieve information.

Bower’s research (1972) found that that mental imagery of unrelated word pairs affected its retrieval

The aim of my investigation was to replicate Bower's reserah (procedure). My alternative hypothesis was that there would be a significant difference in the number of words retrieved by participants who had used mental imagery to learn the word pairs than to participants who had been given rote rehearsal as the form of memorisation. Ten male and ten female participants were tested. The participants were 16-18 year old students at small heath sixth form in Birmingham. The sample I used was the opportunistic sample whereby I obtained those participants who were available to me at that time.

I will be testing a representative sample of 20 students. The study will be carried out in a field setting. All participants were given 20 word pairs, the participants were asked to memorise and recall some (pre-selected) words by imagery and the others by rote rehearsal.

Short-term memory concerns information being encoded and held for several seconds or minutes for use straight away, or is instead prepared for permanent storage in long-term memory. Long-term memory is concerned with items that have been retained over a long period of time, which can range widely; from several minutes to several years. The aim of my research is to find out weather imagery is a better form of storing information than rote rehearsal-I will do this by relicating bower and winzers research and see if come to the same findings as them.

Pencils/pens (more than 1 each so no time is wasted if a pen runs out or pencil breaks)

There is a great advantage to the repeated measures design, as theindividual differences are removed so there s re no longer any confounding variables, also a fewer number of participants a re needed as the data can be collected from the same participants. The biggest diadveantage of this design is that there may be order effects, after going through condition the participants may become bored or tired while going through the seconed condition. However order effects can be rduced through counter balancing and randomizing. I will be using the technique of counterbalancing, this is when the participants take the tasks in different orders.

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