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To see whether giving people a displacement activity before recalling the words would affect the number of the last five words in a list of words that are remembered.
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Psychology Coursework Introduction Aim: To see whether giving people a displacement activity before recalling the words would affect the number of the last five words in a list of words that are remembered. Hypothesis Alternative (Ha): People who recall words in a list with the displacement activity are less likely to recall the last five words in the list than those people who didn't have the displacement activity. Null (Ho): Any difference in the number of the last five words remembered by people who experienced the displacement activity and those who didn't, will be due to chance factors. Rationale: I am doing this experiment to find out whether having a displacement activity would affect the number of words remembered from the list. I chose this experiment as I am interested in finding out more about memory. I am going to the Glanzer and Cunitz displacement activity but changing the activity involved in the...
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