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What is the episodic buffer?
subcomponent of working memory, linked with long term memory & intergrating information
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What is Alzheimers disease?
neurological degenerative disease, causes memory loss & impairments in language
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Link between Alzheimers disease & central executive?
patients suffering shown decreased central executive function
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What is operationalisation?
defining variables specifically so they are directly tested
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What is test retest?
testing same findings over & getting same results
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What is dyslexia?
reading disorder, problem learning to recognise & decode printed words
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What are extraneous variables?
variable that may have affected dependent variable
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What is a confounding variable?
variable that affects findings of a study
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What are situational factors?
e.g.lighting,noise etc can affect study, be controlled or eliminated
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What are participant variables?
participants can affect results e.g.personality,intelligence etc.
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What is the independent variable?
variable that is manipulated to find differences
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What is the dependent variable?
variable that is measured or result of experiment
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What is a one tailed test?
direction of difference can be predicted
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What is a two tailed test?
direction of difference cannot be predicted
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