In a replication of the Grant et al. (1998) study on context-dependent memory, researchers investigated how environmental odors affect retrieval. Participants were asked to learn a series of complex culinary recipes in a room smelling of either fresh rosemary or vanilla, and were later tested on their recall in either a matching or mismatching olfactory environment.
Outline one weakness of using a laboratory experimental method in this study.
163 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Memory, covering Loftus and Palmer (1974): Eyewitness testimony and Grant et al. (1998): Context-dependent memory. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.