self-reference effect
...ent variable. For the self-reference effect, the dependent variables are the participants in the experiment because they will be used to measure the effect that the manipulations of the independent variable had on them. The independent variable will be the information which the participants will be processing. They will be told to listen to it and then told to think of ways to relate the information to themselves, which should result in better memory. There will be a random sample taken of people at school from each grade. A random sample is a survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion. The tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to oneself. The stimuli used were 20 adjectives used both positive and negative chosen from the Webster’s dictionary and the adjectives were then used in various tasks. The Procedure included going into a classroom and explaining the experiment and asking for any voluntary participants. The ...