Does Context InfluenceMemory Retrieval?
Researchers asked participants to learn a list of words in two contexts: underwater and on dry land. The participants had an easier time recalling words when learning and recall happened in the same setting (learning underwater and recalling underwater or learning on dry land and recalling on dry land).
Source: Godden and Baddeley, 1975 Photo: Sergey Dubrov/Shutterstock
Researchers asked participants to learn a list of words in two contexts: underwater and on dry land. The participants had an easier time recalling words when learning and recall happened in the same setting (learning underwater and recalling underwater or learning on dry land and recalling on dry land).
Source: Godden and Baddeley, 1975 Photo: Sergey Dubrov/Shutterstock