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Question 53

Liam conducted an experiment to investigate whether phonological similarity (words that sound similar) affects short-term memory recall.

He recruited his participants from a Year 12 Psychology class. Liam created two word lists, each consisting of ten target words.

  • List A (Phonologically Similar): Words that sound alike (e.g., cat, map, cab, cap).
  • List B (Phonologically Dissimilar): Words that sound different (e.g., key, bus, dog, pen).

Both lists were read aloud to all participants, and immediately afterwards, they had to recall as many of the words as they could.

The results of Liam's experiment are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Number of words recalled from List A and List B

ParticipantNumber of words recalled correctly from List ANumber of words recalled correctly from List B
158
247
369
447
558
647
758
846

Calculate the mean number of words recalled correctly from List A.

You must give your answer to one decimal place.

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