appendices

Standardized Briefing
Preliminary:
Good afternoon senior high students
Today were from grade 12 want to ask for your help to become our participants at psychology
experiment to complete our IA . the paper that i already distributed beforehand are the inform
consent that should be shown and sign by your parents and yourself .It is important that your
parents know about this .
The experiment will be held on Tuesday , August 16 , 2011 . it will be conducted after school at
the audio visual room. We expect you to come on time and tell us beforehand if you cant come
as it would be better for us all .We really need your participation . Thank you for your attention .
Do you guys have any question ?
Introduction:
Good afternoon guys
Thank you for coming . Today we will conduct our experiment . Its about memory interference .
Our aim is investigate the effect of a pressence of interference during the recall the memory . You
have the right to withdraw from the research . And now we are about to start , please be seated
according to your group , group one in the front and group 2 at the back and make some space .
Thank you
Experiment :
We will give you a paper. All you need to do are memorize the list of words in pair so it is A-B
not all A and all B .we will gove you time to memorize as much as you need .
If you guys already finish we would like the group 2 to leave the room to rest
For the group 1 we would like you to corporate with us even further and tried to memorize the
second list of words that are paired A-C same as before we will give you time 5 minutes to
memorize it.
For group 1 and 2 we would like you to recall what you have memorize in this sheet of paper that
already given and tried to recall as many as possible in pair.

Closing :
Thank you for your cooperation . And know we will reveal our intention for doing this
experiment. As you guys know that we are investigating the memory interference we would like
to know that the pressence of the A-C list of words that was given to the 1 group will affect their
answer of recalling the A-B list of words. Do not worry because we will keep the confidentialy
of your result and we will let you know of our experiment result and we will give the copy of it if
you need it . sorry for taking your time . Thank you

Copy of inform consent

Dear parents/guardian,

We are from grade 12 students, we are doing a psychology research about

memory interference and we need a help from your son/ daughters
contribution for our IB psychology Internal Assessment achievement.
We would like you to sign this letter as an agreement that your son/ daughter
will take part in our examination and understand that:

Your son/ daughter will take part as a contributor of our investigation

We ensure that there will be no physical damage or psychological

injury

Your son/ daughter have their own right to withdraw or leave the
research

We are responsible for confidentiality (privacy) for the outcome

Your son/daughter will be debriefed at the end and have a opportunity to find out the
results

We need your collaboration and support by giving your son/ daughter

permission to take part in our research. Thank you
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Students
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Parents

Calculations
Both of the calculations are calculate using in web software this was done to
prevent the possibility that our calculation would be incorrect
Standard deviation/mean calculations
http://easycalculation.com/statistics/standard-deviation.php
Mann Whitney U test
http://web.anglia.ac.uk/numbers/biostatistics/mann_whitney/local_folder/cha
pter_07_mann-whitney.xls
http://www.saburchill.com/IBbiology/downloads/002.pdf

Copy of materials
Psychology IA
Name:

Group:

Class:

Answer sheet
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B
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(First list)
Psychology IA
List of words

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Cat

B
furnance

Dog

table

Lion

chair

Bear

lamp

Panda

wardrobe

Whale

mirror

Penquin

laptop

Horse

printer

(Second list)
Psychology IA
List of words

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Cat

C
Honda

Dog

Toyota

Lion

Ferrari

Bear

Aston Martin

Panda

Ford

Whale

General motor

Penquin

Chevrolet

Horse

Porche