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.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Cognitive approach with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 27 questions, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.
