Dr. Hu is concerned about cheating in his abnormal psychology class. He decides to give two different versions of his final exam and finds that students performed better on one version than the other
He concludes that the students who did poorly must have cheated off students with the other form. This conclusion is:
a) Correct – good for him for catching the cheaters
b) Incorrect – there are too many other factors that could have influenced the difference
c) Incorrect – he may not have made sure each version of the test was equivalent
d) Inconclusive – based on this limited information, he could be right or wrong
c
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Short words (man, dog, mumps) are recalled better than long words (gentleman, canine, diphtheria). Baddley argued that the effect occurs because:
A. long words have more complicated meanings and take longer to comprehend, leaving less time for learning the word. B. long words have more sylables, with more phonemes and therefore generate more interference than short words. C. long words have more sylables, take longer to say and therefore are not rehearsed as many times as short words. D. long words have more sylables, so that when you see a list of long words they are more likely to exceed the capacity limitations of working memory and be forgotten.
In a within-subjects research design, different groups of participants are randomly assigned to experimental conditions or to control conditions
a. true b. false