Chase and Simon (1973) Found That Chess Experts Did Not

question 21

Multiple Choice

Chase and Simon (1973) found that chess experts did not have a better memory for chess piece location on a chess board than novices if ________.

• A) the novices had more practice
• B) the chess pieces were randomly placed on the board
• C) the experts were given a distracter task in between
• D) the chess pieces represented real chess moves

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Definitions:

Statistical Inference

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

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of items in a sample that exhibit a particular trait or characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset differ from the mean.

Approximately Normal

A distribution is said to be approximately normal if it closely follows a normal distribution, characterized by its bell-shaped curve.