Participants in One Study Were Asked to Respond with a Yes

question 31

Multiple Choice

Participants in one study were asked to respond with a yes or no to questions on a series of words. When later asked to recall as many of the words as possible, participants recalled words best when they had been asked

• A) "Is the word printed in big letters?"
• B) "Does it rhyme with another word?"
• C) "Does it mean the same as another word?"
• D) "Does it describe you?"

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The assumption in hypothesis testing that posits no significant difference exists between specified populations.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables.

Z-Test

This is a statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.

Chi-Squared Test

A statistical method applied to ascertain whether a meaningful relationship exists between two variables of categorical nature.