PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Observational Error, Descriptive Statistics
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Participant information: age include all information (slide 3 , mean and std) Include information for years in university mean and std. Dependent variable how many words remembered. Description of descriptive statistics name recall: first report the descriptive statistics in results. Group statistics include n, mean, std in no doodling group recalled avg of 4. 86 while doodling group recalled avg 4. 7: no-doodling group remembered more than doodling. Same for places recall: write group statistics highlighted boxes. Indicate t, degree of freedom, and significance level (2-tailed: conclude that the difference is not significant unlikely because of doodling. Doodling manipulation did not affect memory for places or names: we didn"t expect for place, we did expect for names. Goal explain reason why we failed to replicate the original study null results: what happened, could be because of participant group, sample, etc. Type of memory test influenced recall but doodling did not. Propose some reasons and support them why is your conclusion possible.
