Friday, 29 March 2013

Cognitive - Evidence for State Dependent Recall


Mystowski

I thought I would include this study just in case you want some kind of evidence for state dependent recall (cue dependent theory of forgetting)

Half the participants were given coffee when receiving treatment for their fear of spiders and the other half did not take caffeine while receiving treatment for their fear of spiders.

A week later the participants were shown spiders, the participants who had taken caffeine before did not approach the spiders and were more afraid of the spiders. The participants who had not taken caffeine before were not afraid of spiders anymore.

This proves that state dependent recall exists.

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