• What are the main results of the study? 
• Can the results be used to answer the research question(s)? 
• Can the results be generalized beyond the context of the study? 

What are the main results of the study?  Can the results be used to answer the research question(s)?
 
 
 

Can the results be generalized beyond the context of the study? 

Explicit Memory

Eich et al. analyzed free recall of the words that the participants had rated on visual imagery and pleasantness as a measure of explicit memory.  The results are show in the left part of Figure 1, cued recall.  Personality 1 (P1) could remember close to 50% of the words he/she had previously encountered but couldn't recall many words that Personality 2 (P2) had encountered.  Similarly, P2 couldn't recall the words P1 had rated. 

Implicit Memory - Word-Stem Completion

Performance by the different personalities on the word stem completion task is shown in the right side of Figure 1.  P1 completed about 30% of the stems with a word he/she had previously encountered but very few stems with a word P2 had rated.  Similarly, P2 completed very few stems with words P1 had rated. 

Implicit Memory - Picture-Fragment Completion

Figure 2 shows the first and second completions of the picture fragments.  The first time through the task, the participants needed to see close to 6 parts, on average, of the picture before correct identification.  The second time through the task, all personalities - regardless of which personality had completed the picture the first time - completed the pictures in significantly fewer parts, about 4.5 parts, on average. 
 
 

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