Edexcel GCSE 1-9 Memory -Peterson and Peterson study

How many participants took part in Peterson and Peterson's study altogether?

• 24

• 48

• 72

• 62

The participants were all ........

• Teachers

• School children

• University students

• Head teachers

The aim of the first experiment was to........

• To see if retention of items was affected by interference during recall intervals.

• To see the duration of LTM

• To see if interference was interrupted by retrieval

• To see if retention of items was affected by capacity during recall intervals.

What did the green light indicate?

• The green light meant that the trial was half way through

• The green light meant that the trial was ready to end.

• The green light meant that the trial was ready to begin.

• The green light meant that the trial was a fake

The red light meant to stop counting and recall the trigram (three-letter consonant).

• The red light meant to recall the trigram whilst still counting

• The red light meant to start counting

• The red light meant to stop the trial in an emergency

• The red light meant to stop counting and recall the trigram

How many practice trials did the participants complete?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

True or false

Trigrams are three numbers together

• True

• False

Participants counted backwards in......

• 1's

• 2's

• 3's

• 4's

True or false

The participants where tested 8 times in experiment 1

• True

• False

The results indicated that participants took an average of ......

• 28.23 seconds to begin their recall of the trigram once their counting had stopped.

• 2.38 seconds to begin their recall of the trigram once their counting had stopped.

• 2.83 seconds to begin their recall of the trigram once their counting had stopped.

• 8.32 seconds to begin their recall of the trigram once their counting had stopped.