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An investigation into whether participants recall more words with a familiar topic than they do with an unfamiliar topic.
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An investigation into whether participants recall more words with a familiar topic than they do with an unfamiliar topic. Abstract: The background theory on which this is based is the study carried out by Brewer and Treyens in 1981 on schemata, they aimed to investigate whether schema consistent information was better recalled than schema inconsistent information. This study was similar in the fact both studies were investigating whether familiarity and unfamiliarity affects recall. The aim of this investigation was to investigate whether memorising words from a familiar topic and an unfamiliar topic affects recall of the selected words, it was predicted that the words that were unfamiliar to the participants were less in recall than the words that were similar and from a topic in which the participants have knowledge. The research method chosen for this was experimentation other than observation. The design chosen was repeated measures design and the sample size was...
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