[SOLVED] CS Psychology of Learning & Memory Homework

Psychology of Learning & Memory Homework

#2 Like Ebbinghaus

Goal:
Students replicate one of Ebbinghaus classic findings like Ebbinhaus

Introduction:
Ebbinghaus is considered to conduct very systematic studies on human memory. He tested just himself and identified several characteristics including primacy and recency effect, forgetting curve and so on by using trigrams. Even though modern scientific standards are strongly against conducting experiments for a single subject who knows all the hypotheses and many expectations, we will try to follow his steps.

Homework:
Students create a set of trigram and replicate one of Ebbinghaus famous findings and then write a short research paper, consisting of introduction, method, result, discussion and reference.
Importantly, the report cannot exceed 2 pages in total including all figures. For English, font size should be 12 and the line space should be 2.0 with Word. For Korean, font size should be 12 and the line space should be 160% with Hangul. Citation and reference should follow the APA format.

Due date: by @ 12:00 pm on November, 18th (Wednesday).

Submission:
Students should create a PDF and turn in their report through icampus.

Evaluation:
In this homework, student should be both author and reviewer of others work. As a result, evaluation have two separate components. 1) report evaluation (8 pts); 2) reviewer evaluation (2 pts). By this way, we can create a balance between author and reviewers.

Specifically, the report will be evaluated by peers. For each report, two other students randomly assigned as peer reviewers. Your essay will be evaluated by the following four criteria from reviewers.

Evaluation:
Whether relevant question and background materials are provided in Introduction to motivate readers (2 pts)
Whether the method section explains the experiment with a relevant figure (2 pts)
Whether the result section summaries the data efficiently and the summary plot is correctly drawn (2 pts)
Whether a conclusion is correctly drawn from the result and informatively discussed (2 pts)

Title: Title should summarize your experiment, or finding

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Introduction
In introduction, you should lay out what you are going to do for this homework so that reader can be ready. In particular, provide readers questions or hypotheses you want to test and rationale how you plan to investigate that question. With historical note, it would be better.
Method
In method, you have to describe the stimulus parameter, how you performed the experiment, what is the task in an organized fashion. For example, you have to write how to randomize the set of stimuli, what was the independent and dependent variable and so on.
Result
You have to show the result in a succinct way. I also believe that there will be some figures.
Discussion
So, what is the implication of the result? How does it contribute to the knowledge? Was there any problem? If yes, can you come up with a better way to test it? And so on.
Reference
Ebbinghaus, H. (1913).Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology(No. 3). Teachers college, Columbia university.