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Question 24

Dr Kovac conducted an experiment to investigate whether environmental context affects long-term memory retrieval.

She split her participants into two groups:

  • Condition A: Participants studied a list of 15 words in a silent room and recalled them in the same silent room.
  • Condition B: Participants studied a list of 15 words in a silent room and recalled them in a classroom with loud background noise.

Each participant only took part in one condition.

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

Table 1: Number of words recalled correctly out of 15

ParticipantNumber of words recalled in the matching context (Condition A)ParticipantNumber of words recalled in the mismatching context (Condition B)
P114P99
P28P105
P315P1111
P411P1213
P513P134
P65P148
P712P156
P810

Calculate the range for the list of words recalled in the mismatching context (Condition B).

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186 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Research methods and skills, covering Research methods and skills. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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