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... of four different questions: a)is it in capital letters...?›structural processing b)does it rhyme with...?›phonetic processing c)is it a...?›semantic processing d)Can you fit in this sentence...?›semantic processing The participants had to respond yes or no. They did not know that they are tested for memory. Later they got unexpected recognition test. Hey saw the words+new words again. They had to identify which they saw before. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE›Levels of processing DEPENDENT VARIABLE›Score on recognition test The results were:The deeper the processing(semantic is the deepest from these three),the more likely we are to remember the word. DEVELOPMET OF MODELS -black box USE OF BOTH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH Observation Observing behaviour with the intention of making a functional model of cognitive processes. This observation is known as ‚UNDISCLOSED'.It means that the participants did not know they are observed. Example of cognitive observation is "Doomsday cult" done by Festinger(1956). He was part of the religious cult. And the cult knew that on certain day the ...
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