Retroactive Observation Report

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An experiment on retroactive interference was conducted by Barnes & Underwood (1959). The experiment attempts to find out if the effect of learning of new materials (Second list) affect the ability to recall previously learned materials (First list) as compared to the controlled condition where no additional material was learned at all. The experiment consists of 2 conditions, the experimental condition and the control condition. The experimental group studied two list of paired words, the cued word and the response word. The cued words in the first list would tend to appear in the second list but paired with different response word. There are required to learn the first list words followed by the second list. The participants in the experimental condition would be tested for their recall of the second word (response word) when given the first word (cued word) of each pair. Concurrently, participants in the controlled condition would be given the first list of words to learn and subsequently engaging in an irrelevant activity while participants in the experimental condition engaged in the learning of the second list of words. The participants in …show more content…
Namely patio-temporal, mood, physiological, and cognitive context. This brings us to the phenomenon, state-dependent memory, where the idea of context memory explains this phenomenon as the match between the internal state at encoding and the time of retrieval increase the rate of recall. State-dependent memory is not limited to change of the internal environment through drug and alcohol use. The effects of state-dependent memory can also be attributed to natural physiological changes. Christopher Miles and Elinor Hardman (1998) conducted an experiment to find out if the production of state-dependent memory can be attributed to aerobic
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