Abstract

When information is forgotten, sometimes a visual cue can act as a spark to cue your memory into remembering the lost facts. In this study, the task at hand is recalling as many of the 50 United States as possible. Twenty undergraduate students were randomly assigned into two groups, where the first group’s task was free recall of the 50 states and the second group received a blank map of the states to test cued recall. This memory task may sound like an easy one but recalling the United States of America is tougher than participants imagined. However, there was no difference in the mean number of states recalled between the free recall condition and the cued recall condition.

Recommended Citation

Friedhoff, Katherine (2003) "Do You Know Your 50 States?," Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/psych_journals/vol1/iss2/2