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The Effect of Semantic Organisation of Information on Recall in the Short Term Memory
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PSYCHOLOGY COURSEWORK The Effect of Semantic Organisation of Information on Recall in the Short Term Memory BY GINA COLLIER INTRODUCTION Abstract The experiment contained within this coursework is a replication of the experiment conducted by Bower et al (1969). Subjects were recruited by the experimentors and asked to take part in a psychological study. They were given standardised instructions, stimuli and debriefing. The experiment itself was to test the level of recall of the subjects who were split into two groups randomly and one of two stimuli depending upon which group they were in. One group had an organised list of words and one had an unorganised list of words. The point of the experiment being that it is believed that the group that learnt the organised list of words should have a higher level of recall than the other group. This coursework is going to use the principles of cognitive psychology. These are...
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