The Ranschburg Effect is the effect on the brain that happens when your brain cannot remember things in a sequence but the some of the words that were in the recent list were repeated. What you're supposed to do is you have to have at least 40 patients, 20 young adults and 20 older adults, a list of items, pen, paper to record my info, and to log my information to put into a graph. The purpose of this experiment is to show if the Ranschburg Effect is greater in younger or older adults.
Ranschburg Effect is really that much effective in our society today.The ranschburg effect refers to the finding of impaired serial recall of items repeated on a list. One account attributes this effect to the use of a strategy where subjects avoid using…show more content… The first stresses the importance of output interference in memory. This approach claims that the emission of a stimulus as a response somehow makes a second occurrence of that stimulus harder to retrieve. There are several findings supporting the role of output processes. For example, although recall of the second occurrence is impaired when subjects recall a list of items in typical forward fashion, recall of the first occurrence may be impaired when subjects recall a list in backward order (Jahnke, 1969). No Ranschburg effect is found when subjects are given memory tests that do not require emission of an item twice, such as list recognition (Wolf & Jahnke, 1968) or probed recall of single items (Jahnke, 1970). Also, Ranschburg effects may be caused by response prefixes; when subjects have to emit a stimulus before recall, they are more likely to make errors if that stimulus also occurs on the…show more content… Rather, the Ranschburg effect is interpreted as a result of the guessing strategies that a subject follows when he/she is unable to remember Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to R. L. Greene, Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106. an item (Hinrichs, Mewaldt, & Redding, 1973). This account assumes that the subject develops guessing strategies to improve his/her recall performance. When the subject gives a stimulus as a response at one point on the list, he/she then avoids using that response as a guess at later positions. 1 Such a strategy would greatly reduce the chances of getting the second occurrence of a repeated stimulus correctly by chance. Thus, this account explains the Ranschburg effect by assuming that a subject has a much higher probability of guessing an item correctly if that item is not repeated than if it is repeated. It is assumed that, when an item occurs twice at consecutive positions, the subject encodes the fact that there was a repetition on the list and avoids using a no-repetition guessing strategy. This guessing approach is compatible with the evidence reviewed above implicating output processes. Other evidence consistent with this approach is that the Ranschburg effect is not found when probability of correct guessing is reduced by taking list
