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The Effect of Motivation Level on Retention of Information Encoded Using the Keyword Method
| Title: | The Effect of Motivation Level on Retention of Information Encoded Using the Keyword Method |
| Author: | Amrine, Stephanie Jean |
| Description: | Abstract The goal of this study was to determine the relationship between long-term retention of material learned using memory strategies (i.e., the keyword mnemonic) and level of motivation. The participants studied foreign vocabulary words by means of rote rehearsal (i.e., repeated definition condition) and the keyword method, and were tested for immediate and delayed recall. Motivation was manipulated by informing half of the participants that they would be re-tested at a later date and adding a monetary incentive to perform well, while withholding the information and reward from the other half of the participants. One hypothesis of this research was that there would be an interaction between the motivation and time of test variables, such that the motivation group would perform significantly better than the non-motivation group only on the delayed test. It was also predicted that there would be a three-way interaction, such that for immediate recall, the keyword condition would elicit better performance than the repeated definition condition, regardless of the motivation condition. For delayed recall only, the keyword condition was expected to show higher performance than the repeated definition condition, but only for the motivated participants. The primary hypotheses were not supported by the analyses, but an investigation of the means showed a pattern that was at least numerically consistent with the predicted results. Only in the motivation group did the keyword encoding condition have a slight advantage in test scores compared to the repeated definition encoding condition. Future research is needed to determine if the keyword method should be recommended for use by students. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1212759119
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/4204 |
| Date: | 2008 |
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