memory: Memory Recall Times

In ACSWR: A Companion Package for the Book "A Course in Statistics with R"

Description

A test had been conducted with the purpose of investigating if people recollect pleasant memories associated with a word earlier than some unpleasant memory related with the same word. The word is flashed on the screen and the time an individual takes to respond via keyboard is recorded for both type of the memories.

Usage

data(memory)

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

Pleasant.memory

time to recollect pleasant memory

Unpleasant.memory

time to recollect unpleasant memory

References

Dunn, and Master. (1982). Obtained from

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=165509

Examples

data(memory)
lapply(memory,fivenum)
lapply(memory,mad)
lapply(memory,IQR)

Example output

$Pleasant.memory
[1] 1.070 1.805 2.815 3.320 6.170

$Unpleasant.memory
[1]  1.450  2.335  3.600  6.690 10.930

$Pleasant.memory
[1] 1.134189

$Unpleasant.memory
[1] 2.557485

$Pleasant.memory
[1] 1.3775

$Unpleasant.memory
[1] 4.2425

ACSWR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:53 a.m.