Replicating Glanzer and Cunitz (1966) IB Internal Assessment 2018

In a moment, you will see a series of 21 words displayed one at a time, each on anew slide. You will see each words for approximately one second Following the last slide you will see a slide that says ‘start writing now!’ ! When you see that slide write down as many of the words as you can remember, you may write the words in any order. You will have up to 5 minutes to complete this task

thing

depth

heart

mood

church

guest

wood

loss

speech

king

hair

height

town

gate

truth

scene

phone

mode

flight

lake

month

Start writing now! You have a maximum 5 minutes

You will now see another list of 21 words, one per slide shown at a rate of one per second At the end of this list you will perform a simple maths task. You will be given 30 seconds and you must ‘mark’ as many sums as possible in that time. If the sum is correct write a tick, if it is wrong write a cross Make sure you write the number of each sum before writing your tick or cross You will then have another 5 minutes in which to recall the second set of words, again this can be n any order.

pie

poet

hat

fact

death

spoon

bird

bean

plug

love

wife

art

chair

song

truth

meat

son

clothes

ad

science

breath

You now have 30 seconds to mark as many sums as you can from the following slide

(34+7) – (22+4) = 15 (36+3) - (17+5) = 16 (49+6) – (32+9) = 14 (84-3) + (35-6) = 112 (26-7) + (45+3) = 68 (56-4) - (12+7) = 33 (67-8) + (13-2) = 75 (88-5) + (65-8) = 140

Start writing now! You have a maximum 5 minutes

You have now completed the study. Please look at the words that you remembered from list one. How many of the following words were on your list: Truth Scene Phone Mode Flight Lake Month Give yourself a score out of 7 Work out your percentage

Please look at the words that you remembered from list two. How many of the following words were on your list: Truth Meat Son Clothes Ad Science breath Give yourself a score out of 7 Work out your percentage

Pp Control Condition Experimental condition 1 7/7 5/7 2 3/7 3 4/7 6/7 4 5 6 2/7 7 8 9 10 1/7

Church Speech Height Phone Month Depth Heart Mood Thing Guest Wood A line graph to show the ‘frequency’ of words free recalled dependent upon their position in a 21 item list Church Speech Height Phone Month Depth Heart Mood Thing Guest Wood Scene Mode Town Truth Flight Gate Loss King Hair Lake Frequency of recall

Title? Number of words recalled from final third of the list (words 15-21) Immediate free recall Recall delayed from 30 seconds whilst conducting an interference task