Journal Article Review Outline

*Don’t forget to include a cover page and works cited page
1. Independent Variable – The independent variable is the addition or removal of a basketball into or out of the hands of an assistant. This is performed by a passersby among a group of people, who serve to create an interruption during a conversation where the subject is being asked for directions by the assistant.
2. Dependent Variable – The dependent variable is the subjects’ ability to recall the change either spontaneously or in response to cues.
3. Control Group – The control group was part of experiment two, where there was no change in the scene pre and post interruption.
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6. Data Collection Technique - ________________________________________________
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7. Sample (size, breakdown, where were they found) - _____________________________
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8. Population – are the findings generalizable to that population? - ___________________
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9. Hypothesis – The hypothesis for this experiment asserts that change blindness results from the failure to compare existing representations of a scene presented. The study contends that your brain does in fact note the details of what is seen before and after an interruption or change, however, people fail to compare what was observed before the interruption and after the interruption without actually being prompted to do so.
10. Did they prove their hypothesis? Explain. - ____________________________________
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11. Findings - ______________________________________________________________
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12. Extraneous Variables - ____________________________________________________
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