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The aim of the study was to investigate the variation between memorizing words from organised lists and non-organised lists.
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AN INVESTIGATION TO EXAMINE THE DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE MEMORIZING OBJECTS FROM ORGANISED AND NON-ORGANISED OBJECTS. AIM The aim of the study was to investigate the variation between memorizing words from organised lists and non-organised lists. INTRODUCTION The investigation was similar to the 'Bower et al' study (1969) of whether organisation of data facilitates memorizing it. Methods of organisation to assist in enhancing memorizing objects have been performed, by, for example, asking participants to categorise lists of objects into a meaningful arrangement prior to memorizing it; this technique is called organisation. Participants in one condition, (the experimental group) were presented with 4 groups of words which each consisted of seven words in the form of a list. All of the words in each group were categorised in a meaningful way. Participants in the second condition, (the control group) were presented with all the twenty-eight words randomly jumbled. When the experimental group participants are asked...
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