Mehl (2007) Published a Study in the Journal Science Reporting

question 132

Multiple Choice

Mehl (2007) published a study in the journal Science reporting the results of an extensive study of 396 men and women comparing the number of words uttered per day by each sex.He found that on average women uttered 16,215 words a day and men uttered 15,669 words a day.The effect size calculated on the basis of his findings is Cohen's d = 0.07.According to Cohen's conventions for interpreting d, this effect is:

• A) small.
• B) medium.
• C) large.
• D) so small as to be considered virtually no effect.

Understand the role of different brain structures in memory storage, retrieval, and suppression.

Grasp the effectiveness of mnemonics, method of loci, and other memory-enhancing techniques.

Acknowledge the phenomena of motivated forgetting and how it affects personal memories.

Understand how memory and recall tasks are influenced by factors such as suggestibility and emotional problems.

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