The Talk with Voluntary Participation of a Project Assignment

The Talk with Voluntary Participation of a Project - Assignment Example I explained to them it has to be done according to the procedure to avoid problems in complicated studies. They were given the list of words first and allowed to study it. It took about 2-5 minutes to study the list. Then they were given the distracter math quiz and recognition test thereafter. All participants were keen to answer the math quiz. At the end of the test, they wanted to know how many answers were correct. In Recognition test participants were asked to circle the words that they have seen in the word list prior to the math quiz. Two participants requested a further explanation of the procedure and I explained them. One subject wanted to read the word list for another time (aftermath quiz) but he was not permitted to do so. All the participants were confident about the words which were on the memory list and two of them (A and B) correctly circled all words in the list. Further, they confidently gave scores for the words they believed that was on the list. However, when they were asked to give scores from 1-5 for each word, that was not in the list they were confused and three of them felt that their early answers were wrong and they have missed more. They were confident about the words in the memory list but less confident about the words not in the list. They spent comparatively longer time to decide the scores for the words not in the list and for most words they gave scores less than 5. Only one participant (B) confidently gave 5 marks for the words, not in the list and all of his answers were correct. It took approximately 45 to 60 minutes to complete a session with a participant. Since participants wanted to know their results at the end of each session their scores were calculated and explained. Three of them wanted to spend some time to go through the wrong answers and understand them. Therefore answer papers were given back to them for about 5 to 10Â  minutes.