Name
Final Exam
Using the data from the file in the final exam folder please answer the following question.
These data represent another sample of data collected similar to the memory experiment we
performed in class.
1. Exact Course Section Number.
2. What is the mean of the primacy condition?
3. Did this sample seem to show a primacy effect?
4. What is the mean of the recency condition?
5. Did this sample seem to show a recency effect?
6. What is the SD of the concrete condition?
7. What is the mode of the abstract condition?
8. What is the median of the abstract condition?
9. Does the abstract condition seem to be normally distributed?
10. Does the concrete condition seem to be normally distributed?
11. How many degrees of freedom are in this sample?
12. What is the z score for participant 7s total score?
13. Interpret the z score from question 7.
14. What is the z score for participant 7s concrete score?
15. Interpret the z score from question 14.
16. Did this sample seem to support Millers (1956) finding?
(Remember, the Miller paper is in the post exam files folder)
17. Test the hypothesis for the concreteness effect and report the t statistic.
18. What is the p value for your concreteness test?
19. Report the SD for the concrete condition.
20. Report the SD for the abstract condition.
21. Report the mean for the concrete condition.
22. Report the mean for the abstract condition.
23. Did our sample show a concreteness effect?
24. Create a bar graph showing the means of the abstract/concrete data.
25. Create a bar graph showing the means of the primacy/recency data.
Participant
Total
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
z scores
9
9
9
12
9
9
9
9
8
9
9
8
9
6
10
9
6
7
6
9
7
10
8
7
13
6
9
7
7
5
11
6
Primacy
Recency
4
4
4
5
4
2
2
4
4
4
5
4
2
2
2
4
3
4
4
5
4
2
4
4
1
4
3
5
3
4
4
3
2
0
2
2
2
3
2
2
2
3
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
2
3
3
3
3
3
1
2
3
2
2
Concrete Abstract
4
5
4
5
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
5
4
5
3
5
4
5
4
6
5
5
4
5
4
2
6
1
3
4
3
6
4
3
4
6
3
5
5
6
4
5
5
5
3
3
3
4
3
5
5
4
4
4
5
4
6
3
6
5
4
4
4
3
