PSYCH 140M Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Interference Theory, Free Recall, Meta-Analysis
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Performed meta-analysis (looking at results of many previous studies) regarding subjects" ability to recall lists of items 24-hours after learning. Data analyzed in terms of how many lists of material subjects had previously learned as part of their experimental participation. The more lists subjects had learned, the more forgetting of material they experienced. Subjects who had not learned any previous lists remembered about. Subjects who had learned 20 or more previous lists remembered less than 20% of material after 24-hours. Tendency for our recall of a particular target item to be impaired when we are presented other items from same set or semantic category. Example: trying to remember a particular person"s name will be more difficult if we are being presented other names while trying to recall target name. Study titled an examination of trace storage in free recall (not what baddeley references in his text!) Subjects studied lists of words from different semantic categories.
