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The First Ten Presidents Of The United States

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Throughout the learning and memory experiment, there were many things conducted and tested. The first fifteen presidents of the United States was chosen as a word pair list in which you pair the first name of the president to the last name. The presidents were chosen because they did much for our nation that we should be thankful for. Remembering the word pair list, determined things about different reinforcements and the ability to recall words within a few minutes. The hypothesis is that when trying to remember the word pair list with whatever memory methods used, the beginning and ending word pairs will be remembered most often. The subjects that were chosen came from Indian temple friends and classmates in chemistry class. The target population was eight subjects in three groups, which was a total of twenty-four subjects. There were eight subjects in the control group and eight other subjects each in the two experimental groups. They were divided into control and experimental groups randomly being a mix of temple friends and classmates. A independent variable is manipulated or changed. The independent variable was the word pair list needed to be memorized. The dependent variable is what is being measured in an experiment, which was the results of the word pair test. It was a single blind experiment, which is when only the participant does not know whether they are part of the treatment or control group. The experiment was administered by first asking the subject is

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