Psychology 2115A/B Lecture Notes - 7 Letters

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A variable that varies concomitantly with the independent variable. Just cause there is a counfound doesn"t mean that it does anything, or the independent variable and the counfound work together, or the counfound is solely responsible for your results. Solomon and postman (1952) thought that the previous test had had another counfound that we did not account for. They were not looking at length of the words. So the question is, is it frequency that is responsible for the threshold or is it length. So they decide to not use real words. The made up a vocabulary of nonwords that were all the same length, then for different groups of people they would get them to study some words more than others (they create a frequency). The got rid of the potential confounds example length just studied frequency. They still found a strong relationship between frequency and threshold.

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