Cognitive Practical Flashcards
(15 cards)
What was the aim of out cognitive practical?
To investigate whether an acoustic or visual distractor task would affect the amount of trigrams recalled out of 15
What was the sample of out cognitive practical?
26 psychology students via opportunity sampling in NSFC NE England, aged 16-18
What was the procedure of out cognitive practical?
- We gathered students via an opportunity sample at the college.
- All students were given 2 minutes to read and rehearse 15 trigrams.
- We used independent measures to split the sample in half; half were given a word search (acoustic) distractor task and the other half were given a spot the difference (visual) distractor task. They were gien 1 minute to complete their designated task.
- They were then given another minute to write down as many trigrams as they could remember.
- results were gathered and a mean was calculated for each group using a Mann-Whitney U.
What was the results of out cognitive practical?
More words were recalled from the spot the difference group.
Mann Whitney -0.29
This was significant as the critical value was
What was the conclusion of our cognitive practical?
There is a significant relationship between
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