Week 22- Reporting the results of an experiment

Change blindness study

When someone doesn't notice a key element of their surroundings have changed

Simons & Levin (1998)

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Inattentional blindness

Describes a situation when someone fails to notice something that happens right in front of them

Nelson et al (2011)

An experiment on change blindness and eyewitness identification

ID

Different Actors stealing either $5 or $500

IV = Crime seriousness

IV = No change/actor change

DV = How many participants detected the change

Results

DV2= How many could identify actor in line up

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Unconscious transference - when somebody identifies an innocent person as they have seen them elsewhere

Writing the results section

Restate hypothesis

Describe data that was collected

Report descriptive statistics(as either a table or a graph)

Describe what the descriptive statistics tell us about the data

State what differential statistical analysis was conducted

Report the results from the differential statistical analysis in the conventional form

State whether the result was statistically significant or not

State whether the hypotheses can be accepted or rejected