PLEASE, I need help creating charts and graphs that show the results of my psychology research experiment...?

Question

There are no actual results as it was never done. It's only for a course and I have to make the results up. I am no good at this stuff.

28 volunteers are taking 3 memory recall tests to determine if it is easier to remember concrete ro abstract words. There are 30 of each set of words. I want the results to show that concrete words are easier to recall.

1) Verbal recall after verbally hearing the lists of words. in correct order.

2) View words flash on computer screen (in a different order) then type them out.

3) See words on paper and write out after paper is removed.

Answer 1

keep it simple: you should make this a bar chart.

the Y axis should be labeled # of correctly recalled words

the X axis will have be labeled according to each of the three test types: 1. correct order, 2. computer screen, 3. paper test.

Now, above each of the labels on the X axis you will be have two bars that are adjoined: the first bar will be the average number of correctly recalled words for people who heard concrete words, and the second bar will be the average number of correct words for people in the abstract word condition. You can make each bar a different color to further illustrate that they reflect different conditions. Also, make a small label indicating that one color is for conrete words and one color is for abstract ones. You will end up with 6 bars: 1. concrete words, correct order, 2. abstract words, correct order, 3. concrete words, computer screen, 4. abstract words, computer screen, 5. concrete words, paper, 6. abstract words, computer screen.



Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Maybe you should try not cheating...

Answer 3

The two ways I would do it are a bar graph for total words recalled in each: verbal recall, typing recall, and handwriting. The bottom of the bar group would have those headings with subgroups in each heading:



Verbal recall - concrete and non-concrete

Typing - concrete and non-concrete

Handwriting - concrete and non-concrete.



If you need a second kind of chart, then a line chart with each of the headings & subgroups above.