Psychology 3185F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Null Hypothesis, Logistic Regression

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3185F/G
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Previous research has looked @ how intentional forgetting works/ application of it"s product. Here look at application of the process specifically how actively trying to forget info is useful. Intentionally trying to forget transgression will promote forgiveness. Exp1: intentional forgetting manipulation, then rate forgiveness-2 short stories with conflict 1 sentence (2nd character does a transgression) , after each sentence cue told to remember/ forget, distracter task, afterwards asked if forgive/ not the perpetrator (0=not-4=likely, 5=nothing to forgive)-independent variables: -within- subject variable story (1vs2) each person receives 2 stories. Within- subject variable cue (f/r) each person got 1 story which transgression told to forget& 1 remember. Between subject variable: cue order (order presented f or r 1st /2nd )- re-coded as 5(forget) vs not 5 more likely to say that nothing to forgive if f no effect of story/ cue order.