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Storbeck, Justin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2012
Emotion tunes cognition, such that approach-motivated positive states promote verbal cognition, whereas withdrawal-motivated negative states promote spatial cognition (Gray, 2001). The current research examined whether self-control resources become depleted and influence subsequent behavior when emotion tunes an inappropriate cognitive tendency.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Association Measures, Performance, Short Term Memory
Koriat, Asher – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Two questions about subjective confidence in perceptual judgments are examined: the bases for these judgments and the reasons for their accuracy. Confidence in perceptual judgments has been claimed to rest on qualitatively different processes than confidence in memory tasks. However, predictions from a self-consistency model (SCM), which had been…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Prediction, Memory, Perception
Heit, Evan; Hayes, Brett K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
In an effort to assess the relations between reasoning and memory, in 8 experiments, the authors examined how well responses on an inductive reasoning task are predicted from responses on a recognition memory task for the same picture stimuli. Across several experimental manipulations, such as varying study time, presentation frequency, and the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Mathematical Models, Recognition (Psychology), Memory
Konkle, Talia; Brady, Timothy F.; Alvarez, George A.; Oliva, Aude – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
Humans have a massive capacity to store detailed information in visual long-term memory. The present studies explored the fidelity of these visual long-term memory representations and examined how conceptual and perceptual features of object categories support this capacity. Observers viewed 2,800 object images with a different number of exemplars…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Memorization, Visual Stimuli, Observation
Smith, J. David; Redford, Joshua S.; Haas, Sarah M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
The authors analyze the shape categorization of rhesus monkeys ("Macaca mulatta") and the role of prototype- and exemplar-based comparison processes in monkeys' category learning. Prototype and exemplar theories make contrasting predictions regarding performance on the Posner-Homa dot-distortion categorization task. Prototype theory--which…
Descriptors: Classification, Animals, Role, Comparative Analysis
Eder, Andreas B.; Rothermund, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Affective-mapping effects between affective stimuli and lever movements are critically dependent upon the evaluative meaning of the response labels that are used in the task instructions. In Experiments 1 and 2, affective-mapping effects predicted by specific-muscle-activation and distance-regulation accounts were replicated when the standard…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Psychomotor Skills, Cognitive Mapping
Jang, Yoonhee; Wixted, John T.; Huber, David E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
The current study compared 3 models of recognition memory in their ability to generalize across yes/no and 2-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) testing. The unequal-variance signal-detection model assumes a continuous memory strength process. The dual-process signal-detection model adds a thresholdlike recollection process to a continuous…
Descriptors: Test Format, Familiarity, Testing, Criteria
Logan, Gordon D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
Four experiments explored the task span procedure: Subjects received lists of 1-10 task names to remember and then lists of 1-10 stimuli on which to perform the tasks. Task span is the number of tasks performed in order perfectly. Experiment 1 compared the task span with the traditional memory span in 6 practiced subjects and found little…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory, Task Analysis, Attention Control
Klauer, Karl Christoph; Zhao, Zengmei – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004
A visual short-term memory task was more strongly disrupted by visual than spatial interference, and a spatial memory task was simultaneously more strongly disrupted by spatial than visual interference. This double dissociation supports a fractionation of visuospatial short-term memory into separate visual and spatial components. In 6 experiments,…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability
Friedman, Naomi P.; Miyake, Akira; Young, Susan E.; DeFries, John C.; Corley, Robin P.; Hewitt, John K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008
Recent psychological and neuropsychological research suggests that executive functions--the cognitive control processes that regulate thought and action--are multifaceted and that different types of executive functions are correlated but separable. The present multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses,…
Descriptors: Genetics, Metacognition, Memory, Psychology
Schmiedek, Florian; Oberauer, Klaus; Wilhelm, Oliver; Suss, Heinz-Martin; Wittmann, Werner W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
The authors bring together approaches from cognitive and individual differences psychology to model characteristics of reaction time distributions beyond measures of central tendency. Ex-Gaussian distributions and a diffusion model approach are used to describe individuals' reaction time data. The authors identified common latent factors for each…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Memory, Structural Equation Models, Reaction Time
Schneider, Darryl W.; Logan, Gordon D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Switch costs in task switching are commonly attributed to an executive control process of task-set reconfiguration, particularly in studies involving the explicit task-cuing procedure. The authors propose an alternative account of explicitly cued performance that is based on 2 mechanisms: priming of cue encoding from residual activation of cues in…
Descriptors: Cues, Cognitive Processes, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Hodgetts, Helen M.; Jones, Dylan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Unexpected interruptions introduced during the execution phase of simple Tower of London problems incurred a time cost when the interrupted goal was retrieved, and this cost was exacerbated the longer the goal was suspended. Furthermore, time taken to retrieve goals was greater following a more complex interruption, indicating the processing…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Goal Orientation, Time Management, Memory
Allen, Richard J.; Baddeley, Alan D.; Hitch, Graham J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
The episodic buffer component of working memory is assumed to play a role in the binding of features into chunks. A series of experiments compared memory for arrays of colors or shapes with memory for bound combinations of these features. Demanding concurrent verbal tasks were used to investigate the role of general attentional processes,…
Descriptors: Memory, Experimental Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis
Einstein, Gilles O.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Thomas, Ruthann; Mayfield, Sara; Shank, Hilary; Morrisette, Nova; Breneiser, Jennifer – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2005
Theoretically, prospective memory retrieval can be accomplished either by controlled monitoring of the environment for a target event or by a more reflexive process that spontaneously responds to the presence of a target event. These views were evaluated in Experiments 1-4 by examining whether performing a prospective memory task produced costs on…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis