Background[1]

Research has shown that drawing leads to improved recall for several types of information compared to writing alone. To test the effect of drawing on autobiographical recall, 15 younger and 15 older adults reported a random daily event of their choosing for fourteen days, Participants recorded each day's event in one of two ways, counterbalanced within-groups: by writing about or by drawing a picture of the event. Participants also generated a keyword descriptor for each event. After the fourteen-day period, participants were cued using their keyword descriptor to recall each event by writing it down. Self-reported match accuracy and level of detail between reminisced and recalled events was tabulated

Variables

Variable Label	Measurement	Value Labels
Gender	Gender	Male; Female
AgeGroup	Age Group	Younger; Older
D_Accuracy	Drawing Condition Accuracy
D_Detail	Drawing Condition Level of Detail
W_Accuracy	Writing Condition Accuracy
W_Detail	Writing Condition Level of Detail

Instructions

1. After entering data, save and check for errors.
2. Present (i.e., copy and paste) the frequency distributions for qualitative variables and the mean, sample standard deviation, and range for quantitative variables.
3. Look at the variables separately for younger and older participants.
4. Produce the following graphs and copy and paste them into the document:
   1. Clustered bar graph showing Accuracy and Detail results for the Drawing and Writing conditions.
   2. Clustered bar graph showing the Accuracy and Detail results for the Drawing and Writing conditions by Age Group.
   3. Box plots for Drawing Accuracy, Drawing Detail, Writing Accuracy, and Writing Detail by Age Group.
5. Using Excel, standardize the scores on Drawing Accuracy, Drawing Detail, Writing Accuracy, and Writing Detail. It is recommended that you perform this transformation using Excel.
   1. Save the new data file containing the Z-scores. Copy and paste the table containing the Z-scores into the document.

[1]Adapted from Tran, Beech, & Fernandes (2022).