Participants The participants for this digit span stud consisted of 3 subjects from a large public University. The participants comprised of 1 male and 2 female students with their age ranging from 18-21 years old. With regard to deficiencies, the male student reported that he has color-blindness, while the two female students did not report any deficiency.
Apparatus
This digit span experiment was conducted in the Social Sciences Laboratories at UCI. All three participants carried out the experiment through a computer software, MatLab. In order to implement the experiment, the stimuli used were strings of varied number of letters and randomized color condition or not, which were manipulated based on the experimental design. After all the …show more content…
Figure 1 illustrates the negative trend between number of characters and the recalled accuracy through the percentage of correctness. The same test also displayed the significant effect of the interaction between number of characters and randomized color, F(3,6) = 20.364, p = 0.002.
With same ANOVA test, the within-subjects contrasts showed a significant difference among the levels of number of characters, F(1,2) = 65.871, p = 0.015. The within-subjects contrast also reveal a significant difference between randomized color and no color, F(1,2) = 256.000, p < 0.01. In addition to the ANOVA test, paired sample t test was also used to look at the two conditions. Significant differences were found between three digits versus nine digits, p < 0.01, five digits versus seven digits, p < 0.05], five digits versus nine digits, p < 0.01, and seven digits versus nine digits, p < …show more content…
Gobet, Voogt, and Retschitzki (2004) suggested that chunking is connected to the expertise in chess; the skilled chess players can break up the chunk in greater size to help them remember different cases in order to develop the best, plausible solutions. Because chunking help people acquire knowledge, Gobet (2005) suggests that Chunk-based theories may help improve the way instruction is delivered in schools. One of the advantages offered through theories based on chunking is that they provide well-specified learning mechanisms, including acquiring schemata to help learners improve their retention of the
Apparatus
This digit span experiment was conducted in the Social Sciences Laboratories at UCI. All three participants carried out the experiment through a computer software, MatLab. In order to implement the experiment, the stimuli used were strings of varied number of letters and randomized color condition or not, which were manipulated based on the experimental design. After all the …show more content…
Figure 1 illustrates the negative trend between number of characters and the recalled accuracy through the percentage of correctness. The same test also displayed the significant effect of the interaction between number of characters and randomized color, F(3,6) = 20.364, p = 0.002.
With same ANOVA test, the within-subjects contrasts showed a significant difference among the levels of number of characters, F(1,2) = 65.871, p = 0.015. The within-subjects contrast also reveal a significant difference between randomized color and no color, F(1,2) = 256.000, p < 0.01. In addition to the ANOVA test, paired sample t test was also used to look at the two conditions. Significant differences were found between three digits versus nine digits, p < 0.01, five digits versus seven digits, p < 0.05], five digits versus nine digits, p < 0.01, and seven digits versus nine digits, p < …show more content…
Gobet, Voogt, and Retschitzki (2004) suggested that chunking is connected to the expertise in chess; the skilled chess players can break up the chunk in greater size to help them remember different cases in order to develop the best, plausible solutions. Because chunking help people acquire knowledge, Gobet (2005) suggests that Chunk-based theories may help improve the way instruction is delivered in schools. One of the advantages offered through theories based on chunking is that they provide well-specified learning mechanisms, including acquiring schemata to help learners improve their retention of the