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Investigation to see which of the two interference methods, playing video games or listening to music, has more of an effect on recall.
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Psychology coursework Introduction: An investigation will be conducted to see how different types of interference affect recall and which types of interference have the bigger effect. In 1959, Peterson and Peterson set up an experiment to prove that information not being rehearsed would be lost from short term memory. In the experiment, Peterson and Peterson used what is known as the Brown-Peterson technique. On each trial, participants were presented with a trigram consisting of three consonants, which they knew they would be asked to recall in the correct order. The participants counted backwards in threes from a random 3-digit number between the initial presentation of the trigram and the time when they were asked to recall it. This was done to prevent rehearsal of the trigram, because rehearsal would have improved performance by keeping information in short term memory. They found that there was a rapid increase in forgetting from short term...
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