Method and design

• What type of study was conducted in this research?

  Laboratory experiment
• What design was used in the experiment?

  Independent measures design
• What were the independent variables in the study?

  • Study context: silent or noisy
  • Test context: matching or mismatching
• How many conditions were produced in the study?

  Four conditions
• What was the dependent variable in the study?

  Participants' performance on tests
• What types of tests were used to measure the dependent variable?

  • Short answer recall test
  • Multiple-choice test
• How many participants did each experimenter run for the conditions?

  One participant for each of the four conditions
• How were participants assigned to conditions?

  Randomly assigned by experimenters
• What additional participant was run by each experimenter?

  One additional participant for one condition