Cognitive Psychology-Sensory Memory: a. Suppose that in a partial report experim
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Cognitive Psychology-Sensory Memory:
a. Suppose that in a partial report experiment like the one in this demonstration you are shown a 4 x 4 matrix of letters and are cued to report the letters from the first row. Assuming you recalled three of the four letters in the cued row, how many of the letters in the matrix were available in your sensory memory at the offset of the letter matrix? Explain.
b. *Use either Google Scholar or VT LIBRARY to answer this question. Provide reference for the articles you referred to in APA format at the end of the document. (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/) Identify one other experimental methodology that has been used to study sensory memory. Support your finding with a published peer-reviewed experimental research paper that has used this method to study sensory memory. Explain how this is different from the Partial Report Method. Do you think one is better than the other? Why or why not?
Explanation / Answer
Question: Suppose that in a partial report experiment like the one in this demonstration you are shown a 4 x 4 matrix of letters and are cued to report the letters from the first row. Assuming you recalled three of the four letters in the cued row, how many of the letters in the matrix were available in your sensory memory at the offset of the letter matrix? Explain.
Answer: According to the results of this experiment, there will be 12 item available in the sensory store for recall.
Explanation: In the 4 * 4 matrix, there will be total 16 items – 4 items in each row. If the with the help of cue to recall first row the subject could recall 3 out of 4 items then we can expect the subject to be able to do the same for other three rows as well. If the subject is cued to recall from any other row. Therefore using the ratio, we can conclude that there were 12 items that could be retrieved from sensory memory.