Psychologists believe that LTM has potentially unlimited capacity. The capacity of STM, however, has a very limited capacity. George Miller (1956) reviewed psychological research and concluded that the span of immediate memory is 5-9 items. He also found that people can recall 5 words; just as well as they can recall 5 letters, this is because if you chunk things together, they are easier to remember. However, more recently, Cowen (2001) refutes this theory, and concludes that STM is likely to be limited to about 4 chunks.
Individual differences were important in this variation as those who were more confident were less likely to conform. A limitation of Asch’s study is whether it is valid or not. Asking students to judge the length of lines is an insignificant task. On a more important task, conformity is likely to drop Asch’s findings may only tell us about conformity in special circumstances and the study also lacks mundane realism. Having said this, the study was still well controlled and systematic.
Abstract: The aim of this investigation was to test long-term memory using two conditions: mental repetition and note-taking. It was hypothesised that the participants who were able to take notes will remember more of the critical words than the participants who used mental repetition. There were 22 year 11 students used, 3 male, 19 female, all relatively the same age group (15-16 years). 50 words were read out to two groups, one group able to take notes, and the other not able to. The participants were then quizzed to see how many critical words (words starting with s) they could remember.
Mental Rotation: How does the angular orientation of an object affect a participant’s reaction time? Abstract We evaluated the effect of replacing abstract shapes with familiar objects on a mental rotation task modelled on Shepard and Metzler’s 1971 experiment. There were 152 non-naive participants drawn from the University of Hull psychology undergraduates, split into 76 pairs. 76 participants completed 101 mental rotation tasks in one hour, telling their partner whether the pair of images they were presented with were the same or different. Their partner timed the response time and input the data into a spreadsheet.
RUNNING HEAD: KREY Memory: Commonality of Association Stephanie Krey St. Catharine College Abstract An experiment was conducted to test memory using high and low commonality with word association. There were twelve participants for this experiment: 10 females, 2 males: ranging from eighteen to fifty eight years of age. This experiment used a two by three mixed factorial design for experiment and a two by three ANOVA factorial design for the results. The participants were informed of their task of after being read the list of thirteen stimulus words and their thirteen responses; they were to respond with what they remember the response to the stimulus to be. The results concluded that the high commonality association had more meaningfulness in regards to memory than did the low commonality association words.
Cross cultural studies on gender role have helped psychologists understand whether gender is affected by the culture a person grows up in or if it is innate behaviours that occur in all humans. There have been several different cross cultural research some suggesting social factors as an explanation for gender roles and others concluding biological factors. For example the research conducted by Williams and Best. They explored gender stereotypes with 2800 university students in 30 different nations as participants. They were each given a 300 item adjective checklist and then asked to decide whether they though it was most associated with males or females.
Abstract This experiment investigated the performance of memory recall for 20 participants, based on two levels of processing. The 20 participants were divided into two groups, the Color Group (shallow processing) and the Build Group (deep processing). It was hypothesized that the Build Group would be able to recall more words than the Color Group based on the results from a prior experiment conducted by Craik and Tulving (1975). The findings of the said experiment showed that participants whom used deeper levels of processing had better memory recall. The results from this study supported the hypothesis; participants in the Build Group were able to recall more words than participants in the Color Group.
Analyzed cultural differences By Lisa Shreves Everest College Research conducted by Geert Hofstede to understand “how basic values underlie organizational behavior” was based on the work Hofstede conducted in 50 countries and with over 116,000 people. (Deresky, pp84-1) He developed four value dimensions consisting of: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity. He later added a fifth dimension that he named the long-term/short-term orientation dimension. The table below describes the five dimensions of culture proposed by Hofstede. (Deresky, p84-86) Power Distance | This first level is the “acceptance by a society of the unequal distribution of power in institutions”.
Then students were experimented with a test that would go towards their grade and extra credit if they volunteered students that volunteered there were 129 from the list and 60 of students were chosen, had to think out loud and they were split up into three groups based on the performance of their three previous 70 question exam. And the 20 “A” students scored greater than 90, “C” students had averages of 70-76 and “F” students scored an average of 60 and each group was consisted of 12 females and 8 males. Then they tested “M” students which were allowed as much time to complete the exam, which was still 70 questions. They students who did the exam said it was an ease with the instruction they had on the exam. With the A, C, And F
| Language Task 4: Focus on the teacher’s spoken language Candidate name: Matthew Hong Candidate number: Date submitted: Sept.14th Word Count: 899 (Limit: 750-1000 words) I verify that the work submitted is all my own work and I have sourced and referenced any published materials used. Signed: _____________________ Before the assignment: Record yourself teaching a lesson through English. Listen back and choose a minimum of 6 samples of your teacher language-at least one of these should be example of good language use. Find samples through which you will be able to discuss a range of issues: grammar, word choice, grading to the level of the class, word order, pronunciation / intonation. Class Description: (100-150 words) ------------------------------------------------- This class consists of 28 female students, 2nd graders in high school, and their proficiency in English is high.