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Core Studies: Cognitive Area

Memory: what Grant et al. add to Loftus and Palmer

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Recall questions on the practical message of each memory study, how far Grant et al. change understanding of memory, whether the findings conflict, usefulness, individual and cultural diversity, testing universality, and controls unique to Grant et al.

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To what extent do the two studies improve our understanding of individual diversity?

Key term

What different practical message does each study deliver?

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Do the findings of the two studies contradict each other?

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  1. 1

    What different practical message does each study deliver?

    Model answer

    Loftus and Palmer warn professionals that questioning can corrupt evidence, while Grant et al. give students positive guidance on how to revise.

  2. 2

    To what extent does Grant et al. change our understanding of the key theme of memory?

    Model answer

    It broadens it considerably, moving from memory being distorted by language after an event to memory being cue-dependent, so that forgetting may be a retrieval failure the right context can reverse.

  3. 3

    Do the findings of the two studies contradict each other?

    Model answer

    No, they are complementary: one shows that a memory can be altered by later information, the other that an accurate memory may still be inaccessible without matching cues.

  4. 4

    Which study is of more immediate use to the person reading it, and why?

    Model answer

    Grant et al., because it yields revision advice any student can apply directly, whereas the value of Loftus and Palmer lies in reforming professional interviewing practice.

  5. 5

    To what extent do the two studies improve our understanding of individual diversity?

    Model answer

    Only slightly, since the narrow student sample of Loftus and Palmer conceals individual differences and, although Grant et al. included a wider age range and both sexes, the sample is too small to support conclusions about them.

  6. 6

    What research would be needed to test whether context-dependent memory is universal?

    Model answer

    The same procedure would have to be repeated with participants from a range of cultures and educational systems, comparing the size of the matching effect across them.

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