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PSY 368 Human Memory Reconstructive Memory cont. Slide 2 Announcements Experiment 3 Report due April 16 If you missed the details of the Experiment, I included them in the lectures last week Slide 3 Interaction of Episodic and Semantic Memory (Exp 3) (Download detailed instructions form Blackboard) Modification of Anderson, Bjork, & Bjork (1994) (see Blackboard Media Library Optional Readings to download a pdf of this paper if you want to read more) Question: Can the retrieval of some items impact the retrieval of others? e.g., Suppose that you are studying for a test. You decide to study half the material. Does studying half the material have an impact on the half of the material that you didnt study? Experiment 3 Slide 4 Interaction of Episodic and Semantic Memory (Exp 3) Scoring : Experiment 3 Results Class Avg. Data Practiced # recalled4.6 % (divide # by 6)77.2% Non-practiced # recalled2.9 % (divide # by 6)47.7% Control # recalled6.4 % (divide # by 12)53.5% Sample data Banana Orange Lemon Tomato Club Sword Bomb Guppy Trout Ale Rum Vodka Beer drinks v, weapons s, drinks r, weapons r, drinks g, weapons t Dont count beer, not on list Slide 5 Interaction of Episodic and Semantic Memory (Exp 3) Scoring : Experiment 3 Results ANOVA results F(2,118) = 59.49 comparisons: Practice vs control t(59) = 8.9, p