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chunking experiment ideas?
« on: September 20, 2008, 06:34:23 pm »
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hey guys, i've been set a chunking experiment to do over the holidays for that research investigation report. i just needed some ideas on how to make this experiment 'original'. that is, test for something that hasn't been tested in our text books, eg. looking at the STM memory capacity of the aged or something.

anyone got any good ideas to help me out?

any will be appreciated, thanks =]
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Re: chunking experiment ideas?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2008, 06:37:42 pm »
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hard to say how to make it original without knowing about what you designed.

you could always stay simple, and just give people a series of numbers like 17895042, 2925 6629, 47 10 93 84, and then show how retention changes in your sample with respect to the size of chunks.
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Re: chunking experiment ideas?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2008, 11:04:55 pm »
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we haven't actually designed anything yet, but we can't just repeat a text book experiment like the number sequences and phone numbers. gotta have some kind of unique aim to it
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Re: chunking experiment ideas?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2008, 03:08:41 pm »
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Perhaps instead of using numbers, you can use objects, like a group of coloured pencils
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