Counting Backwards Immediately After the Last Presentation of a Stimulus

question 25

Multiple Choice

Counting backwards immediately after the last presentation of a stimulus and before recall of the stimulus is an example of a task designed to

• A)prevent participants from rehearsing.
• B)deceive participants about the purpose of the experiment.
• C)allow some decay to occur.
• D)facilitate recall.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution of a metric derived from numerous samples collected from a certain group.

Sample Mean

The average of all the observations in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory stating that, given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples will be approximately equal to the mean of the population, with the samples approximating a normal distribution.

Statistical Inference

The process of drawing conclusions about population properties based on a sample taken from the population.