Experiment advice

[Shawnus]

Hello, first time poster! Was looking for some advice from those a little more experienced than me.

 

I have to run my own study for my degree course (I have a couple of days to design and run the study on about 20 people) and I am thinking of testing the visuo-spatial component of Baddeley's working memory model.

 

So I wanted to use a location learning test to see if participants remember the location of a picture in the grid or if I ask them which grid square they can tell me which picture was there (so backwards and forwards recall).

 

One condition will be the pictures in the grid will be related to each other in some way, the other condition will have unrelated pictures. I want to demonstrate that learning and remembering locations will be easier if the items are related to each other, I think related pictures are interesting as they have greater ecological validity than random images or other tests like corsi block tapping. I want to use just pictures and not words as I only want to test the visuo-spatial component of WM and not the phonological loop or have it interfere.

 

Now my question is does this sound workable? I've been reading about location learning tests but is there another name for this type of test?

 

And any other general feedback really.

 

Thanks a bunch.