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Methods. Von Restorff effect experiment Maximum of 1000 words Double-spaced When in doubt, follow APA guidelines Describe what was done under these headings: participants stimulus and task design analysis

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  1. Methods Von Restorff effect experiment Maximum of 1000 words Double-spaced When in doubt, follow APA guidelines Describe what was done under these headings: participants stimulus and task design analysis On course Website: Excel spreadsheet of Experimental (target word) and Control condition results…not so important for this week

  2. Methods:Participants 35 York University students 27 female Tested as 2 groups: N=18 and N=17 Treated in accordance with APA ethical standards

  3. Methods:Stimulus and Task Design 4 world lists; 12 words per list Serially presented at 2 sec. per word 60-seconds free recall time after each list Non-target word font, size,color: Arial 24 black Target word font, size, color: Comic Sans bold 54 purple

  4. Methods:Stimulus and Task Design Target word: Item 5-8, avoid primacy or recency effects from beginning and end of list, respectively. Target position: sampling randomly without replacement All words were of same frequency of use Instructions(Paraphrase this, don’t quote!): presented 4 word lists of 12 words each. After each list, write down as many words as possible. Don’t write anything until the end of each word list.

  5. Methods: Analysis Items 5-8 analyzed For each participant: 1. mean % recall of 4 target words 2. mean % recall of remaining, non-target words (3/list x 4 lists = 12 items) generating 2 distributions for comparison Within-subjects design Student’s t-test, alpha p < 0.05 n.b.: (You are permitted to include the following passage verbatim, and must state something to this effect, for accuracy): For the first group of participants (N=18), one of the non-target words from position 5-8 of list 4 had erroneously occurred earlier in the list, and was consequently discarded from analysis. Thus, for this group, only 2 non-target words were averaged from the 4th list.

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