There was no significant correlation found between the Numeric and Spatial conditions, indicating there was no relationship between these two conditions. This means we need to accept the null hypothesis that there is no interaction between these two sets of conditions. It should be noted that even if we adopted a two-tail hypothesis, that the result would still be insignificant, however not by large degree (P=0.104). Previous research made a one directional hypothesis seem more appropriate, due to previous research showing visuospatial bootstrapping to be a robust phenomenon. A more interesting finding of these results is that while no typical bootstrapping effect was found, there was a main effect of the two spatial conditions, specifically
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Specifically, finding the visuospatial bootstrapping effect in its own right will be crucial needed evidence before any such claims and theories can be accepted to a degree of certainty. With the bootstrapping effect being a robust finding across multiple studies with different samples, the findings of this experiment are limited in what conclusions can be drawn, and so are more suggestive of directions future research can take rather than conclusive evidence. Without the bootstrapping effect being found, it calls into question all other data obtained, and as such (better designed) research will need to be conducted where the visuospatial bootstrapping effect and (verbal bootstrapping) are both found for any real claims to be considered well founded for these theories to withstand scrutinity in the academic psychological community. This is not to be too critical of the findings found, as this could lead to a possible avenue of future research that would increase our understanding of episodic buffer and the working memory model as a whole. However, based on this one study with findings that appear to disagree with well founded literature we are limited in the conclusions we can interpret from this …show more content…
If we had found a bootstrapping effect present in the sample, then we could say with more certainty that these two are not correlated with one another, but with the limited data from this study, it is difficult to make such claims with confidence. Further research will need to be conducted in a similar matter to confirm these suspicions.
The effect of the addition of verbal information to existing visuospatial information will be referred to for this paper as “verbal bootstrapping”, as if visuospatial bootstrapping is the addition of visuospatial information to verbal information during encoding, then verbal bootstrapping being the addition of verbal information to spatial information during encoding seems the most appropriate. (expand)
While the long term representation of a telephone keypad did not significantly increase recall in the Numeric conditions, it is possible that it did help improve the spatial conditions recall scores, as previous research by Darling and colleagues has shown that it is long term representations of the keypad format and not the spatial arrangement that is critical for bootstrapping to take place (citation needed?)
Come back with references to how this fits in with the current episodic buffer model (specifically binding) &
Specifically, finding the visuospatial bootstrapping effect in its own right will be crucial needed evidence before any such claims and theories can be accepted to a degree of certainty. With the bootstrapping effect being a robust finding across multiple studies with different samples, the findings of this experiment are limited in what conclusions can be drawn, and so are more suggestive of directions future research can take rather than conclusive evidence. Without the bootstrapping effect being found, it calls into question all other data obtained, and as such (better designed) research will need to be conducted where the visuospatial bootstrapping effect and (verbal bootstrapping) are both found for any real claims to be considered well founded for these theories to withstand scrutinity in the academic psychological community. This is not to be too critical of the findings found, as this could lead to a possible avenue of future research that would increase our understanding of episodic buffer and the working memory model as a whole. However, based on this one study with findings that appear to disagree with well founded literature we are limited in the conclusions we can interpret from this …show more content…
If we had found a bootstrapping effect present in the sample, then we could say with more certainty that these two are not correlated with one another, but with the limited data from this study, it is difficult to make such claims with confidence. Further research will need to be conducted in a similar matter to confirm these suspicions.
The effect of the addition of verbal information to existing visuospatial information will be referred to for this paper as “verbal bootstrapping”, as if visuospatial bootstrapping is the addition of visuospatial information to verbal information during encoding, then verbal bootstrapping being the addition of verbal information to spatial information during encoding seems the most appropriate. (expand)
While the long term representation of a telephone keypad did not significantly increase recall in the Numeric conditions, it is possible that it did help improve the spatial conditions recall scores, as previous research by Darling and colleagues has shown that it is long term representations of the keypad format and not the spatial arrangement that is critical for bootstrapping to take place (citation needed?)
Come back with references to how this fits in with the current episodic buffer model (specifically binding) &