Landry and Bartling (2011)

The participants consisted of

• 54 graduate psychology students

• 54 undergraduate biology students

• 24 undergraduate psychology students

• 34 undergraduate psychology students

Which experimental design did the researchers use ?

• Independent Measures Design

• Repeated Measures Design

• Matched Pairs Design

• Correlation Research

What did the participants in the experimental group have to do?

• read a list of letters to recall while saying '1' and '2' at a steady pace

• read a list of letters to recall while saying '1' and '2' at two numbers per second

• read a list of letters to recall while listening some upbeat music

• read a list of letters to recall while listening some slow music

How many lists were there consisting of a series of how many letters?

• 5 and 5 respectively

• 5 and 10 respectively

• 10 and 7 respectively

• 7 and 10 respectively

Which of the following was NOT included in the lists of randomly arranged letters?

• K

• X

• Z

• M

These letters were chosen because they don't sound (a)  

For how long were the participants shown the printed list?

• 3 seconds

• 5 seconds

• 7 seconds

• 10 seconds

How many trials were conducted for each participant?

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 10

Each trial was scored for the accuracy of ______

• The letters remembered

• The order of the letters

• The number of letters recalled

• The words remembered

The results showed that the scores from the experimental group were much (a)   than the scores from the control group.