Long shot..psychology experiment (A level)

Jamie1984 · 10 Mar 2008 at 20:47

bit of a long shot here, google is definately not my friend. Basically I'm doing a memory study in psychology and need to provide research for the basis of my experiment. I've decided to do an experiment originally done by Bower and Springston in 1970 but can't find a complete run down of the procedure and results. The most promising links lead to a website of coursework where registration costs (and tbh I can't use another students coursework as a reference).
The closest I've gotten to the experiment is a couple of lines on a website with reference to their work being published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology to which I cant find a copy of!

Anyhoo, just a long shot!

Ta.

hlw86 · 10 Mar 2008 at 21:59

Can you give more details like the name of the research paper Bower and Springston did or atleast the aspect of memory they looked at?

FrostedNipple · 10 Mar 2008 at 22:16

I did psychology, you can make up your own procedure! So as long as you know the general gist of the experiment you should be fine!

Jamie1984 · 11 Mar 2008 at 07:20

hlw86 said:
Can you give more details like the name of the research paper Bower and Springston did or atleast the aspect of memory they looked at?

STM, chunking. they tested whether the familiarity of chunks (famililiar and non-familiar) affected recall.

Jamie1984 · 11 Mar 2008 at 07:21

FrostedNipple said:
I did psychology, you can make up your own procedure! So as long as you know the general gist of the experiment you should be fine!

I have the general gist, just not the specific findings of the study.

hlw86 · 11 Mar 2008 at 09:04

The full reference is:

BOWER, G. H., & SPRINGSTON, F. Pauses as recoding points
in letter series. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1970,
83, 421-430.

I doubt you'll get it online due to the date (1970) - too early for an electronic record. Unless you find a scanned PDF or something but I can't find one.

A few back-up studies:

"Meaning and grammatical structure as chunking devices have been studied by Bower and Springston (1970), Johnson (1965, 1968), Laughery and Pinkus (1968), and Martin (1967), among others".

Taken from: The processing of structured and unstructured tonal sequences. D.Deutsch, 1980. There is a PDF of this that you can find on google.

J.B · 11 Mar 2008 at 09:55

I imagine you could go to your local uni and possibly see if they A)have a copy or B) Use there Athens subscription to get a copy from the online journal archive.

Bit of a long shot but you never know!

FrostedNipple · 11 Mar 2008 at 09:59

tbh, the experiment sounds quite hard to replicate anyway, if i was you i would change the experiment!

Column Matrix · 11 Mar 2008 at 10:09

Just make up your results aswell. I believe that is the standard procedure for all secondary school experiments.

Jamie1984 · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:09

Moses99p said:
I guess 1984, from your forum name, is your year of birth, how come you're doing A levels now?

well, not a levels but the 19yrs+ equivalent HEFC's.

Jamie1984 · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:10

hlw86 said:
The full reference is:

BOWER, G. H., & SPRINGSTON, F. Pauses as recoding points
in letter series. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1970,
83, 421-430.

I doubt you'll get it online due to the date (1970) - too early for an electronic record. Unless you find a scanned PDF or something but I can't find one.

A few back-up studies:

"Meaning and grammatical structure as chunking devices have been studied by Bower and Springston (1970), Johnson (1965, 1968), Laughery and Pinkus (1968), and Martin (1967), among others".

Taken from: The processing of structured and unstructured tonal sequences. D.Deutsch, 1980. There is a PDF of this that you can find on google.

thats great thanks bud, gonna take a look over it now.