Y10 PSY

Week 5
Note: Text in blue or purple does not need to be written in your notebook.

Learning Goals for this week

Learn more about mnemonics by

interpreting data we collected relating to narrative chaining and recall of words.

Become more familiar with the UniBridges

ning/website and customise your page

Begin to understand about ethics in regards

to Psychology.

RESEARCH TECHNIQUES
Page 8 Chapter 1 Because psychology is a science psychologists use a number of research methods to collect and look closely at data. The best way to learn this is to

Review of Mnemonic techniques

Interactive students show hands for the following MC questions A mnemonic device is A. any visual system used to improve memory. B. used by to improve eyewitness testimonies. C. any system used to improve memory. D. used only by people over 60 to improve their memory.

Review cont.
Narrative Chaining A. occurs when unorganized material is woven into a meaningful story. B. involves taking a well-known location and visually placing material to be recalled in various places. C. is encoding can hinders retrieval. D. is when a word starting with first letter of each word to be remembered is made into a sentence.

VARIABLES
In psychology we need to know the difference between an independent variable and a dependent variable. Please copy the following into your notebook.

Independent Variable - IV
This is the variable (or factor) that the experimenter

changes.
In this case it was the method used to learn the words. The two methods were 1. No method words were just read out 2. Narrative Chaining

Dependent Variable
This is the variable or factor that is measured.

In this case it was the person recall ability of the list of words or the number of the fifteen correctly recalled.

Work Requirement: Can Narrative Chaining improve memory?

Title Can Narrative Chaining improve memory?
Hypothesis

That Y10 Psychology students who used the mnemonic technique of narrative chaining, when learning a list of 15 words, will have superior recall of these words than those students who just hear the words and use no mnemonic technique. Results draw a bar graph of the results (see next slide) Discussion answer questions on page 9 of your text book.

Report questions from Page 9

Discussion: 1. What did your results show when comparing the average score for both control and experimental groups? 2. Was your hypothesis supported? Refer to your results to support your answer. 3. What was the difference in the way the experiment was performed for the experimental and control groups? This factor is called the independent variable: the variable that was deliberately altered by the experimenter in the experiment.

Cont.
4. What did you measure in this experiment? This is known as the dependent variable: the aspect of behaviour that is measured in an experiment to look for effects of the independent variable. 5. A number of other variables could have inuenced the data (dependent variable). Explain two such variables and describe how each could have inuenced the results. Consider variables such as the consistency of experimenters, how the method was designed and carried out, choice of participants, and method for collating results. Conclusion: Summarise what you have found out as a result of conducting this experiment

Results sample lay out (use ruler!)

No of words correctly recalled

16 14 12 10 8

These are not the actual results just a sample. You will have to work out the mean for the class.

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4 2

No technique

Narrative Chaining