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Paivio's dual coding theory
Research studies: Mintzer & Snodgrass (1999); Sternberg et al. (1995)
Preparation session: 'Learning word-pairs in a controlled experiment', study week 1
Offprints: Sternberg, G., Radeborg, K. and Leif, R.H. (1995) 'The picture superiority effect in cross-modality recognition' Memory and cognition, vol.23, pp. 425-41
This project is based on the picture superiority effect and Paivio’s dual coding theory. Paivio’s dual coding theory highlights that we have different ways of storing information, either visually or/and verbally, the picture superiority effect shows that stimuli presented as pictures can be more easily remembered and recalled in comparison to stimuli presented as just words. Research hypothesis/Research question
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Research Hypothesis
What is the research hyothesis that you wish to test?
The participants will be able to recall more words in Condition 3 (Words and Pictures) than the other two conditions. Conditions 1 (words) and 2 (pictures) being the least …show more content…
By presenting participants with conditions that contain words; pictures; pictures and words we should be able to identify that the pictures are the better memory