Discovered Memory Theory

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Introduction The experiment explored the theory of discovered memory it was initially looked into by theorists School, Bedkinson and, Ambadar. Discovered memory is the process of which the brain temporarily loses recollection of an event than regains the ability to recall it later. The comparative used was a sexual assault victim who pushes back the thoughts of their trauma than eventually being able to remember them.The experiment expected to find participants to be better at recalling words when the first word in the cue was in phase two and three compared to when it differed. Method The hypothesis was tested using a vocabulary centered experiment. It consisted of 44-word pairs, each pair included one cue word and one target word. The cue …show more content…

When looking at my results there was not much deviation between the two categories in the recall stage varying by only 5% whilst my score for memory judgment for each category was the exact same 81%. In comparison to another student's, my scores appear to be higher when looking at the cued recall scores they got 86% correct for same context words and about 68% for different context words.Our memory score appears very similar mainly around the 80% range. In both cases, our score is still higher than the average global dataset scores for all categories. Looking at the global data it's clear that in both the cued-recall and the judgment memory participants scored about 10% higher when viewing same context pairs in comparison to different context pairs. My overall scores were about 15% higher than the global average in each category. When originally attempting to complete this experiment my laptop died before I could finish phase three, so I did have previous experience and a chance to obtain a better understanding of the test. I knew what to expect and already observed the trial and error aspect of trying to understand how the phases flowed. So naturally, when comparing my scores to another student in the class and looking at the global comparison it was made sense as to why my scores appeared higher overall.

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