experiments compared auditory and visual presentation in single-trial free recall

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experiments compared auditory and visual presentation in single-trial free recall

experiments compared auditory and visual presentation in single-trial free recall
1)What is your aim?
It’s to see How much information students save and forgot when they got it from the reading and listening.(Short therm memory)
2)What is your hypothesis?
To see how the information save better when the participants listen and read it in the same time.
3a)Who’s research are you basing your experiment on?
Bennet B. Murdock,Jr. and Keith D. Walker (1969)
b. What did they do?
They did three experiments compared auditory and visual presentation in single-trial free recall.
c. What did they find?
They found that the information was remembered much better than other informations when the information had been heard rather than seen.

d. How will your experiment be different?
We will have three groups.
1st group will only listen the. After that they will get a test with the questions about the text’s information.

2nd group will read this text. After that they will get a test with the questions about the text’s information

3rdgroup will listen and read the text. After that they will get a test with the questions about the text’s information.

4. What will your independent and dependent variables be? (what will you change? What will you measure?)
Our independent variables will be a numbers of groups,texts instead of the word and the questions in the tests.
Dependent variables will be tasks for the groups.
We add the listening and reading in the same time in our experiment and we will measure how many questions in the text will be correct, so that means that we will measure how many information save in the brain of the participants.

5. Who will your participants be? (age, gender, nationality, etc)
Info about participants
• Students
• From 17 to 20 years old
• International (from foundation)
6. How will you recruit your participants? (will you ask your friends to join in the experiment? Will you put posters up to ask for participants?)
We will ask our friends and classmates from the foundation course.

7. What will you ask them to do during the experiment?
We will ask them the read the instruction first, after that we will make an experiment and ask them to complete the text wih the questions from the information which we will give them.

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