Experiment on Short-term Memory

Instructions:

Your task is to perform the experiment detailed below and to write-up your results.  You will be graded on your use of appropriate research vocabulary.  Your write-up must include the following:

• Construct a research question for the experiment you choose
• Identify your DV & IV
• Describe how you conceptualized and operationalized your DV & IV
• Construct a hypothesis (what do you think will be the result)
• Describe the experimental design:
  • Explain how you executed the experiment. Make certain you include both Table-1 and Table-2 in your write-up.
  • Your sample – what type of sample did you use
  • Step-by-step description of the actual experiment
• Describe your results.
  • Was your hypothesis proved? If not, what do you think may have interfered with causation between your IV & DV?

Your assignment must be typed, double-spaced, using a common 12-point font

Experiment on Short-term Memory:

Instructions:

• For this experiment you will use 2 tables of words. Table-1 is completed for you, below.
• Make a second table (Table-2) that clusters the words from Table-1 into groups (e.g. all fruits or all furniture across one line or down one column).

The Experiment:

• First, ask subjects to spend about 2 minutes studying the words on Table-1. Then ask the subjects to write down the words they remember.
• Second, ask subjects to spend about 2 minutes studying the words on Table-2. Then ask the subjects to write down the words they remember.
• Compare the results.

Table-1:

Last Updated on March 13, 2020