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the affect interference has on the recall of words
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The affect interference has on the recall of words Abstract The experiment is based on the Brown - Peterson Task but adjusted slightly to investigate interference as apposed to decay as they investigated. The aim of the experiment is to investigate whether or not interference has an affect on the recall of words. The research method is an experiment with an unrelated design. The method of sampling to gain the participants to take part was opportunity sampling. The mean number of words recalled in group 1 (no interference) was 13.7 and group 2 (with interference) was 9.1. this supports the theory of interference and that it results in less information being recalled. Therefore the experimental hypothesis - Participants who experience interference will recall fewer words than the participants who do not experience interference - can be accepted and the null hypothesis can be rejected. Because the hypothesis predicts which direction the results...
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