Answer to Question #250385 in Statistics and Probability for smilynne

Question

Use the traditional method in testing the hypothesis.

a. State the hypotheses and identify the claim.

b. Find the critical value(s)

c. Find the test value

d. Make the decision

e. Summarize the result

Based on previous research and sound theoretical considerations, a cognitive psychologist believes that memory for pictures are superior to memory for words. To test this hypothesis, the psychologist performs an experiment in which students from an introductory psychology class are used as subjects. Eight randomly selected students view 30 slides with nouns printed on them, and another group of eight randomly selected students’ views 30 slides with pictures of the same nouns. Each slide contains either one noun or one picture and is viewed for 4 seconds. After viewing the slides, subjects are given a recall test, and the number of correctly remembered items is measured. The data follow: Use ∝= 0.05.

No. of Pictures Recalled: 18 21 14 25 23 19 26 15

No. of Nouns Recalled: 12 9 21 17 16 10 19 22