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Regulating Response Speed Promotes Associative Learning
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Cristina Casadevante; Miriam Romero; Tatiana Fernández-Marcos; José Manuel Hernández – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Casadevante et al. (Curr Psychol 42: 4272-4285, 2023) used an objective test and found that regulation of response speed was related to better performance in a category learning task. The present study aims at analysing whether the relation between regulation of response speed and learning exists in an associative learning task. We developed ad…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Task Analysis, College Students, Reaction Time
Perceptual Effects of Social Salience: Evidence from Self-Prioritization Effects on Perceptual Matching
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Sui, Jie; He, Xun; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
We present novel evidence showing that new self-relevant visual associations can affect performance in simple shape recognition tasks. Participants associated labels for themselves, other people, or neutral terms with geometric shapes and then immediately judged whether subsequent label-shape pairings were matched. Across 4 experiments there was a…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Semantics, Association (Psychology), Stimuli
Measuring Metacognition: A Prospect for Objective Assessment
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Al-Hilawani, Yasser A.; Dashti, Fatimah A.; Abdullah, Ahmad A. – Volta Review, 2008
This study compares the performances of students with typical hearing, students who are deaf and hard of hearing, students with typical hearing who were low-achieving, and students with typical hearing who were institutionally raised by testing with a newly constructed tool of metacognition that also measured reaction time. Results revealed no…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reaction Time, Objective Tests, Students
Rhythms of Mental Performance
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Valdez, Pablo; Reilly, Thomas; Waterhouse, Jim – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2008
Cognitive performance is affected by an individual's characteristics and the environment, as well as by the nature of the task and the amount of practice at it. Mental performance tests range in complexity and include subjective estimates of mood, simple objective tests (reaction time), and measures of complex performance that require decisions to…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Mathematical Models, Academic Achievement, Performance Tests
Rapid Acquisition in Concurrent Chains: Evidence for a Decision Model
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Grace, Randolph C.; McLean, Anthony P. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Pigeons' choice in concurrent chains can adapt to rapidly changing contingencies. Grace, Bragason, and McLean (2003) found that relative initial-link response rate was sensitive to the immediacy ratio in the current session when one of the terminal-link fixed-interval schedules was changed daily according to a pseudorandom binary sequence (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Animals, Selection, Change, Adjustment (to Environment)
Equivalence Classes with Requirements for Short Response Latencies
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Tomanari, Gerson Y.; Sidman, Murray; Rubio, Adriana R.; Dube, William V. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Five adult humans were tested for emergent conditional discriminations under rapid-responding contingencies. During four-comparison matching-to-sample baseline training (AB and AC), limited-hold contingencies for responding to samples and comparisons were gradually restricted to the shortest duration consistent with at least 95% accuracy and no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Staff Utilization, Undergraduate Students