A researcher's theory that teaching the alphabet backwards ...

[luvbio]

A researcher's theory that teaching the alphabet backwards shortens the time to learn letters was not found to be statistically significant. It could be that
 
  a. this method of teaching letters is not helpful.
  b. the method of teaching letters is helpful but there were problems with the design of the study.
  c. the method of teaching letters is helpful but the design lacked the power to reject the false null hypothesis.
  d. All of these are true.
  e. None of these is true.

Question 2

Give an example of an acrostic and explain how such a mnemonic device works.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[jliusyl]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

An acrostic is a sentence made up of words derived from the first letters of items to be learned. Example: Richard of York gave battle in vain. Richard = red, of = orange, York = yellow, gave = green, battle = blue, in = indigo, and vain = violet. This mnemonic aids in learning the sequence of colors of the visible light spectrum.