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Using the Movies to Illustrate the Principles of Experimental Design
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Strelan, Peter – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
This article presents an innovative technique for teaching the principles of experimental design in a way that is entertaining and engaging for students. Following a lecture on experimental design, students participate in an experiment in which the teacher uses a funny segment from a movie to test the influence of implicit social norms. Randomly…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
Development, Awareness and Inductive Selectivity
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Hayes, Brett K.; Lim, Melissa – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Two studies examined whether adults and children could learn to make context-dependent inferences about novel stimuli and the role of awareness of context cues in such learning. Participants were trained to match probes to targets on the basis of shape or color with the relevant dimension shifting according to item context. A selective induction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inferences, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Error Discounting in Probabilistic Category Learning
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Craig, Stewart; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Little, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The assumption in some current theories of probabilistic categorization is that people gradually attenuate their learning in response to unavoidable error. However, existing evidence for this error discounting is sparse and open to alternative interpretations. We report 2 probabilistic-categorization experiments in which we investigated error…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Associative Learning, Classification
Attentional Changes during Implicit Learning: Signal Validity Protects a Target Stimulus from the Attentional Blink
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Livesey, Evan J.; Harris, Irina M.; Harris, Justin A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Participants in 2 experiments performed 2 simultaneous tasks: one, a dual-target detection task within a rapid sequence of target and distractor letters; the other, a cued reaction time task requiring participants to make a cued left-right response immediately after each letter sequence. Under these rapid visual presentation conditions, it is…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Associative Learning, Experiments, Task Analysis
Attentional Mechanisms in Simple Visual Detection: A Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off Analysis
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Liu, Charles C.; Wolfgang, Bradley J.; Smith, Philip L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Recent spatial cuing studies have shown that detection sensitivity can be increased by the allocation of attention. This increase has been attributed to one of two mechanisms: signal enhancement or uncertainty reduction. Signal enhancement is an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio at the cued location; uncertainty reduction is a reduction in the…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Experiments, College Students
Using Maintenance Rehearsal to Explore Recognition Memory
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Humphreys, Michael S.; Maguire, Angela M.; McFarlane, Kimberley A.; Burt, Jennifer S.; Bolland, Scott W.; Murray, Krista L.; Dunn, Ryan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
We examined associative and item recognition using the maintenance rehearsal paradigm. Our intent was to control for mnemonic strategies; to produce a low, graded level of learning; and to provide evidence of the role of attention in long-term memory. An advantage for low-frequency words emerged in both associative and item recognition at very low…
Descriptors: Cues, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Recognition (Psychology)