We were told prior to the experiment that we will get to see a set of words. At the bottom of the paper, a letter will be displayed, either an “A” or a “B”. If an A is shown, we were told to count the number of syllables on the word. If a B is shown, we had to make a judgment whether the word is associated with a positive or negative connotation. Throughout the experiment, 20 words were shown with an equal number of each. There were a set of controls, such as the amount of time each word was shown and also how many times they were recited.
After all the words were both shown and recited, we were told to write the words down. The words do not have to be in order. The results shown in class was a wide difference in numbers ranging from 10 to 20. To conclude, information can be easily encoded if:
- participants concentrate throughout the experiment
- participants connotes the word related with either meaning or emotions
- participants should group words in chunk to be able to remember more words in a chunk instead of individual words
However, the most important part of this experiment is whether or not the “B” words, which is related to emotions and meaning will help us remember the words better. The result of the experiment is as shown below:
Number of students wit more A than B
3
Number of students with same A and B
4
Number of students with more B and A
9
To conclude this experiment, more people were able to remember the words related to meaning compared to both the numbers of students remembering more A words and number of students remembering the same exact A and B words combined. The graph is bimodal because there were two modes, which are 10 (the least) and 15 (the middle).
posted by Tat S. @ 9:02 AM
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