The aim of this investigation was to investigate if ‘chunking’ in STM will be affected by the speed of verbal progression through a word list.
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Contents Section Page Number Abstract: 2 Introduction: 3 Aim/hypothesis: 6 Method: Design: 7 Method: Participants: 7 Method: Materials: 8 Method: Procedure: 8 Results: 9 Treatment of results: 14 Discussion: 15 Conclusion: 20 Bibliography: 21 References: 22 Appendix A: Standardised Instructions: 24 Appendix B: Word List: 25 Appendix C: Raw results/Findings: 26 Appendix D: Working out the Descriptive statistics- Mean, Mode, Median, Range and Standard Deviation: 27 Appendix E: Inferential Statistics- Mann Whitney U test: 30 Abstract The aim of this investigation was to investigate if 'chunking' in STM will be affected by the speed of verbal progression through a word list. My hypothesis was that 'The faster the reader verbally progresses through the wordlist the greater the participants 'chunking'. This involved twenty participants, ten in each of the two test conditions with an equal...

