The Development of Automaticity in Short-Term Memory Search: Item-Response Learning and Category Learning

The Development of Automaticity in Short-Term Memory Search: Item-Response Learning and Category Learning

Discipline:
Psychology

Type of service:
Essay

Spacing:
Double spacing

Paper format:
APA

Number of pages:
3 pages

Number of sources:
0 source

Paper detalis:

1. Provide the full citation of the article, as it would appear in a reference list of an APA style
   paper. (Your answer on your homework should look like what would appear in the
   References page – font, spacing, indent, etc.)
   2. From the Introduction section of the article:
   a. What general topic is the researcher addressing?
   b. What have other researchers already discovered about this topic?
   c. How does this study follow from earlier research?
   d. What is new about this study compared to other research?
   e. What are the researcher’s hypotheses?
   3. From the Method section of the article:
   a. What are the characteristics of the participants and subjects?
   b. What apparatus and materials were used in the study?
   c. What did the participants actually do?
   4. From the Results section of the article:
   a. For each hypothesis: What results relate to the hypothesis? Do they support the
   hypothesis?
   b. What statistical tests did the researchers use when they analyzed the data?
   c. In everyday English, what do the statistical test tell you?
   d. Are the results consistent with those of earlier research?
   e. What do the figures and tables (if there are any) convey? Do they lend support to the
   hypotheses?
   5. From the Discussion section of the article:
   a. Do the present research findings agree with previous research and accepted theory?
   b. If there are any unexpected findings, why did they occur?
   c. Why do the researchers think their findings are important?
   d. What are the implications of this research?
   6. Write a 150 to 250 word summary of the article. This should be a brief, but complete,
   description of the research – what question it addressed, what methodology it involved, the
   outcome of the study, and the conclusions that the researchers drew.