Encoding Specificity -- due Thursday, March 9

1. Print out your individual data (there will be nine conditions with means in written format--no graphs). You should not include individual trials.

2. First describe what was the general experiment set up and what your task was as a participant.

3. Describe the classic/expected results of this experiment in your own words, and then describe if your data shows the same trend. If it does not, explain how the results differ and why you think they differed.

4. One day, when I was a child, I went to my Mom to tell her something.  I rushed to the room where she was, but when I arrived I had forgotten what I wanted to say!  My Mom said "You have to go back." "What do you mean, I have to go back?" I asked. "You have to go back to the room where you decided you wanted to tell me something.  If you do that, you'll remember what it was".  I went back to the other room, and when I arrived I remembered what I wanted to tell my Mom! Explain how my Mom's directions relate to the theory of encoding specificity in terms of memory encoding and retrieval.