A Psychology Professor Has Set a Test for 50 Students

question 48

Multiple Choice

A psychology professor has set a test for 50 students with each question passed scored as 1 and each question failed scored as 0 from a total of 100 questions.One week later the professor then asked the students to write down all the things they had passed that they could remember.These were scored as correctly remembered or incorrectly remembered by coders who were blind to the experimental conditions.He then conducts a within-samples t-test to compare the number passed with the number remembered and provides the SPSS output below. Which of the following statements is false?

• A)The significant difference shows that the time gap between the test is too large to be reliable.
• B)The p-value is too small to be useful.
• C)The scores cannot be compared by t-test because one measure recognition and the other recall.
• D)A manipulation check would be useful for the remembrance measure.
• E)All of the above.

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Definitions:

Memory

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.

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A process in which opposing facts or ideas are weighed and compared, with a view to determining the best solution or resolving differences.