Experiment: Discussion

Question 1

Did your results support your hypothesis? mention both groups and overall sample

Answer 1

G1- no
G2- yes
Sample-no

Question 2

Did your results support Jacobs experiment?

Answer 2

No as in my experiment, in both chunking and not-chunking scenarios, the average recall of letters was less then 7.3

Question 3

Do you results support the notion of 5-9 items in the capacity of short term memory?

Answer 3

Only when the students do not use chunking

Question 4

How can order effects resulting from repeated measures impact your experiment?

Answer 4

As they may show better results from the practice they did whilst waiting

Question 5

How could you limit the impact of order effects in future experiments?

Answer 5

By giving the students an irrelevant deceiving task to perform while waiting for their next turn and telling them it’s vital to the experiment

Question 6

How could the environment in which you performed the task impact your results?

Answer 6

Noises from birds, other teachers and walking past students my distracted the participants

Question 7

How could you limit the impact of external noise in future experiments

Answer 7

Do the experiment in the library away from all noisy factors

Question 8

How could peer expectations impact the results?

Answer 8

Some may feel motivated to perform better and others may feel nervous and perform worse