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THE EFFECT OF WORD TYPE AND MODE OF PRESENTATION ON RECALL
THE EFFECT OF WORD TYPE AND MODE OF PRESENTATION
ON RECALL

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Psychology of Miriam College

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

By
Marie Angelyn C. Cabuquit
Anna Isabella A. Cruz
Hannah Lois G. Tarroja
2008

Abstract

A series of study further explored the way in which mode of presentation and word type affects recall of words presented in the auditory, visual and audio-visual mode. The hypotheses that mode of presentation affects recall, word type affects recall and both mode of presentation and word type affects recall was tested. 23 female Psychology students in Miriam College between 17-21 years of age participated in the experiment. Experiment showed that mode of presentation does not affect recall significantly. Experiment also showed that recall is affected by word type. The participants were able to recall more real words than nonsense words, with the mean of M= 3.125 and M= 0.673 respectively. These results were reconciled with studies on pseudo words in which real and nonsense words are associated in performing lexical decisions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Chapter I Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Statement of the Problem Review of Related Literature Conceptual Framework Hypotheses

Chapter II Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Participants Materials Procedure

Chapter III Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Chapter IV Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter V Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations . . . . 22
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Appendices

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Memory is essential to human beings and all other living organisms. It is through memory that

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