A cognitive psychologist is investigating how adults retrieve words from their long-term memory. Since memory retrieval is an internal, unobservable mental process, the psychologist measures the reaction times of participants when naming pictures of varying familiarity.
Explain how the psychologist could use inference in this study to understand these unobservable mental processes.
248 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Approaches in Psychology, covering Learning approaches, Cognitive approach, Biological approach, Psychodynamic approach (A-level only), Humanistic Psychology (A-level only), and Comparison of approaches (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.