Choose is context-dependent effect of background colour in free recall with spatially grouped words
Sakai, T., Isarida, T. K., & Isarida, T. (January 01, 2010). Context-dependent effects of background colour in free recall with spatially grouped words. Memory (hove, England), 18, 7, 743-53.
Answer each of the questions below using a research article you located. Please turn in the article with your analysis.
1. Put article citation in APA format (as if this was in your reference list). (5 pts)
Sakai, T., Isarida, T. K., & Isarida, T. (January 01, 2010). Context-dependent effects of background colour in free recall with spatially grouped words. Memory (hove, England), 18, 7, 743-53.
2. What is the purpose of the study? (2 pts)
3. Summarize the main points of the literature review in two sentences. Were current primary sources used? (3 pts)
4. Does the review of the literature establish the relationship between previous studies and the current one? Explain. (3 pts)
5. What is left out of the review? What else would you like to know about the previous studies? (5 pts)
6. What is the research question? (3 pts)
7. How were participants sampled from the population?
How were they then assigned to groups for this study? (5 pts)
8. Identify the independent and dependent variables. (5 pts)
9. What are the operational definitions of the variables? (5 pts)
10. Describe subject variables (variables related to the participants) considered by the researcher. How might they have caused a difference between treatment and control groups on the DEPENDENT variable that could be an alternative explanation for the findings? Are there subject variables that the researcher did not consider? How might they have caused a difference between the groups on the DEPENDENT variable that could be an alternative explanation for the findings? Explain using Woolfolk question 1. (5 pts)
11. What are other major threats to internal validity? (Are there factors other than the independent variable that could account for the differences found between the groups in results on the dependent variable? Explain using Woolfolk questions 2-5. If you see no threats, explain what elements of the design eliminated them.) (5 pts)
12. What are major threats to external validity? (Explain using Woolfolk questions 7-8. If you see no threats, explain what elements of the design eliminated them.) (5 pts)
13. Briefly summarize the results of this study. What conclusions were drawn? (3 pts)
14. What suggestions for further study did the researcher make? (3 pts)
15. What implications for education (or the field of study) can be gleaned from this study? (3 pts)
16. Based on the above analysis, briefly summarize the major strengths and weaknesses of this article. Write this the way you would put it in the literature review section of your proposal. See online Research Proposal FAQs. (10 pts)