Practical

Question 1

What is the research question?

Answer 1

Will people who process words semantically remember more words than people who process words structurally and phonetically?

Question 2

What is the aim?

Answer 2

To investigate whether people will remember more words that are processed semantically than structurally and phonetically and to test the levels of processing approach

Question 3

What was the IV?

Answer 3

The way the words were processed semantically , phonetically or structurally

Question 4

What was the DV?

Answer 4

How many semantic , phonetic and structural words remembered out of 30

Question 5

What was our hypothesis?

Answer 5

Participants who process words semantically will remember significantly more words that P’s who process the words Phonetically and Structurally

Question 6

What is out null hypothesis?

Answer 6

There will be no significant difference between the number of words remembered that are processed semantically , phonetically or structurally and any difference would be due to chance.

Question 7

What type of experiment was it and why?

Answer 7

Lab experiment because they are highly controlled so we can see a cause and effect

Question 8

What was our target population?

Answer 8

Wyke college students aged 16-19

Question 9

What sampling technique did we use and why?

Answer 9

opportunity sampling as it was cheap quick and easy

Question 10

What was the sample?

Answer 10

16 students , 3 male and 13 female

Question 11

What experimental design did we use?

Answer 11

Repeated measures

Question 12

What did we take into consideration to prevent order effects?

Answer 12

Counterbalancing

Question 13

What 4 extraneous variables did we control?

Answer 13

• Same words for each P
• Same time for recall for each P
• All words of similar difficulty 2-3 syllables
• Conditions were counterbalanced

Question 14

in regard to deception?

Answer 14

P’s were decieved as they did not know it was a memory test

Question 15

In regard to debriefing?

Answer 15

All P’s got a thorough Debriefing

Question 16

In regard to withdrawal?

Answer 16

P’s told they could withdraw at any time in the study

Question 17

In regards to confidentiality?

Answer 17

Names were not used in the write up so P were kept confidential

Question 18

Procedure?

Answer 18

• went into quiet social area on a Wednesday afternoon in November and approached the first student sitting alone
• Asked them if they would participate in my psychology experiment
• Told them they would be shown 18 words and then asked a simple yes or no question after each which they should right down
• The question forced the P to process the word semantically,Phonetically or structurally
• Next we told the P to count aloud from 18 backwards before writing down as many words as they could remember on a new sheet of paper
• P was then debriefed

Question 19

What was the level of data used and why?

Answer 19

Interval because it was a precise measurement (Number of words remembered )

Question 20

2 ways the data could be recorded?

Answer 20

• Table

- Bar graph