In a cognitive psychology experiment, the researcher is interested in whether the encoding condition has a significant effect on memory for a set of drawings. In encoding condition A, subjects are asked to name the object in each drawing; in encoding condition B, subjects are asked to name the color of each drawing. Then all subjects are tested on their memory of the drawings. Each recruited subject is randomly assigned to either encoding condition A or encoding condition B.

Based on memory theories, the researcher hypothesized that condition A (object naming) would lead to significantly better memory compared to condition B (color naming), and she sets the significance level at = .01 for a one-tailed test.

Hint: You may remember a similar scenario in the previous assignment, but with a crucial difference. In the previous assignment, each subject is tested in BOTH condition A and condition B, while each subject here is tested in only ONE condition (either A or B).

Subject ID	Encoding A		Subject ID	Encoding B
1	77		13	88
2	80		14	83
3	93		15	81
4	78		16	77
5	90		17	91
6	85		18	90
7	91		19	86
8	87		20	76
9	91		21	88
10	90		22	74
11	86		23	79
12	94		24	89

Q1A. What is the dependent (outcome) variable? What is the independent (grouping) variable?

Dependent Variable:
Independent Variable:

Q1B. Create the null and alternative hypotheses (directional) for this study, using both words and symbol notation.

	Written	Symbolic Symbol bank for copy & pasting: =<>m
Null
Alternative

Q1C. Calculate M₁andM₂

Q1D. Calculate df₁, df₂, and df_total

Q1E. Estimated Variance for population:

Q1F. Calculate the pooled variance (S_pooled²) from the two population variances (from question e above)

Q1G. Use the pooled variance (from question f above) to calculate the variance for sampling distribution 1 (S_M1²) and the variance for sampling distribution 2 (S_M2²)

Q1H. Calculate standard deviation (S_diffmean)of the comparison distribution

Q1I. Calculate the t statistic.

Q1J. For the one-tailed test, find the critical t values for this hypothesis test based on the total degree of freedom (from question d above), and the preset alpha level.

Q1K. Compare the calculated tstatistic with the critical tvalue by stating which is more "extreme", and then draw a conclusion about the hypothesis test by stating clearly "reject" or "fail to reject" the null hypothesis.

Q1L. Effect Size - Answer the following questions.

Both process and result must be correct to earn the credit for each item

1. Calculate the pooled standard deviation for the populations (use the pooled variance calculated in question f).[.5 point]

2. Calculate the standardized effect size of this test.[.5 point]

Q1M. Result of the Independent Samples t-Test - Answer the following questions

1. Draw a conclusion based on the hypothesis test result and the effect size. In other words, did encoding condition have a significant effect on memory score?[.5 point]

2. Was the effect small, medium, or large?[.5 point]