Glanzer and Cunitz (1966)
Mundane realism refers to whether a study’s procedure reflects real-life situations. Memory research often uses artificial tasks that do not represent everyday behavior. Glanzer and Cunitz’s (1966) study, for example, asked participants to recall lists of random words. This had low mundane realism since people don’t usually memorize random list of words in daily life. However, the study did provide evidence of the...