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AP ®Psychology 2021 Free-Response Questions Part B

Dr.  Jones was doing a formal research study of the effect of mental imagery on memory.  She randomly assigned students in the psychology course she was teaching into two groups and required them to complete the task as part of their coursework.  Forty students were in each group.  Each group was presented the same list of thirty word pairs (e.g., tree/book, house/street, friend/cat).  Group A was told to form a mental image for each pair.  Group B was not given that instruction.  Each group was given two minutes to memorize the pairs of words.  Dr.  Jones then tested their recall of the list by giving each group the first word and asking them to remember the second word.  Dr.  Jones recorded the number of words recalled by each group and then debriefed the participants.  The results are presented in the table below.

Question 1

Short answer
• Identify the independent variable presented in the study.

Question 2

Short answer
• Identify the control group.

Question 3

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 • Explain why the type of research design being used is appropriate for this study.

Question 4

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• Explain what the different standard deviations indicate about the data from the two groups.

Question 5

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 • Explain the ethical flaw that is explicitly presented in the scenario.

Question 6

Short answer
• Explain how the primacy effect could apply to this research.

Question 7

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• Explain how levels of processing are related to this research.

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