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I am going to carry out an experiment to find out if people can remember words more easily if they are randomly picked out or if they are in categories and the reasons behind this.
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I am going to carry out an experiment to find out if people can remember words more easily if they are randomly picked out or if they are in categories and the reasons behind this. Background Research Long term Memory (LTM) stores information so that retrieving information will be easier. If we don't practice and rehearse things stored in our short term memory (STM) then information will shortly go away before it gets to the LTM. It is clear that the meaning makes it much easier to remember information. A study done by Bousfield supports this idea. Bousfield (1953) gave the participants 60 items to learn randomly. There were 15 names of people, 15 names of animal, 15 professions and 15 vegetables. They were then asked to recall the words in any order they liked. As a result most participants tended to remember words in clusters belonging to the same category. This...
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