PSY305: The data will be collected from everyone in the class and the results will be written up based on the class results: Cognitive Psychology: Exploring the Mind Report, SUSS, Singapore

The data will be collected from everyone in the class and the results will be written up based on the class results as a group and not your individual results. The compiled data will be provided to you, along with the statistical results. Hence, do not include or discuss your individual results in the experimental report.

• The first part covers descriptive statistics. The group summary data (class results) can be found in the SPSS output file. Use the data provided to prepare the table of means as shown below, in APA format.

Provide an Appropriate Description of the Table of Means Here in Italics

Do not start this section immediately with the table, but rather, with a brief description of the summary data, highlighting the key findings, as presented in the table of means.

Although the summary results may sometimes be displayed as a graph with an appropriate caption in accordance with the APA format, for the purpose of this assignment, it is sufficient to just present the table of means.

• The second part of this section covers inferential statistics (statistical results). State the type of ANOVA that was used to analyze the results. In this case, there are two IVs, so this is a two‐way ANOVA, and there should be three sets of results – the two main effects and the interaction.

For each effect, provide the statistical test value (F), the degrees of freedom, and the probability value (p) and present them in APA format (see examples below). The F‐value in ANOVA is always positive, so it does not give any indication of the direction of the effect. If the effect is found to be statistically significant, you need to check the mean scores of the relevant conditions from the table of means to see if they match the hypothesis.

You should bear in mind that a significant effect could possibly be due to results that go against what your hypothesis predicted. In such cases, you should discuss the possible reasons for this outcome in the Discussion section. Remember to correctly state whether the experimental hypotheses were accepted or rejected and whether the null hypotheses were rejected or failed to be rejected.

The following are some common ways of reporting ANOVA results:

• There was no significant main effect of the position of number, F(1, 21) = 2.21, p = .081.
• Significantly more numbers in the tone suffix condition were recalled than numbers in the speech suffix condition, F(1, 21) = 5.26, p = .035.
• There was a significant interaction between the position of number and type of suffix, F(1, 21) = 4.76, p < .001.