What factors would influence the results of the serial position experiment?
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Using the CogLab CD accompanying your course textbook, complete the serial position experiment and create a report on the experiment.
In your report, write a brief introduction explaining what the serial position effect is. In addition, include some representative researches on this effect. Next, in the Methods section, describe the process that you followed to complete the experiment, including a description of the materials used and the stimuli. Make sure to include enough information so that others can also perform the same experiment successfully.
Finally, describe the experimental results. In addition, determine if the experiment showed primacy and recency effects. Provide a rationale to support your answer. Summarize your report, including answers to the following questions:
- Were the results in accordance with your expectation? Provide a rationale to support your answer.
- Did anything about the experiment surprise you? If yes, what?
- What factors would influence the results of the serial position experiment?
Name your report: SU_PSY3002_W7_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your report in a Microsoft Word document to the W7: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, August 12, 2017.
Cite any sources you use using APA format on a separate page.
assignment 2
Using the CogLab CD accompanying your course textbook, complete the memory span experiment and create a report on the experiment.
In your report, write a brief introduction explaining the theory involved in the experiment. Next, in the Methods section, describe the process that you followed to complete the experiment. Make sure to include enough information so that others can also perform the same experiment successfully.
Finally, describe the experimental results, including conditions where you performed the best and the worst. Provide a rationale explaining why the results differed in both the conditions. Summarize your report, including answers to the following questions:
- Were the results in accordance with your expectation? Provide a rationale to support your answer.
- Did anything about the experiment surprise you? If yes, what?
- What extraneous factors would influence the results of the memory span experiment?
Name your report: SU_PSY3002_W5_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
Submit your report in a Microsoft Word document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Saturday, July 29, 2017.
Cite any sources you use using APA format on a separate page.