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Direct linkDuran, Geoffrey; Michael, George A. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Forty French gendarmes from the "Gendarmerie Nationale," and 40 laypersons completed two experiments to assess how they make inferences from testimonies. The first experiment targeted how inferences are made when the critical information on which a judgment has to be made is explicitly stated in the testimony or it is implicit and has to…
Descriptors: Police, Law Enforcement, Inferences, Comprehension
Keus van de Poll, Marijke; Sjödin, Louise; Nilsson, Mats E. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
It is not unusual that people have to write in an environment where background speech is present. Background speech can vary in both speech intelligibility and location of the sound source. Earlier research has shown disruptive effects of background speech on writing performance. To expand and reinforce this knowledge, the present study…
Descriptors: Attention, Acoustics, Speech, Writing (Composition)
Soares, Julia S.; Storm, Benjamin C. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
Fidget spinners have experienced a rapid rise in popularity, at least partially because they are marketed as attentional aides with the potential to enhance student learning. In the current study, college-aged students watched educational videos while either using a fidget spinner or not. Using a fidget spinner was associated with increased…
Descriptors: Object Manipulation, College Students, Video Technology, Attention
Threadgold, Emma; Marsh, John E.; McLatchie, Neil; Ball, Linden J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Background music has been claimed to enhance people's creativity. In three experiments, we investigated the impact of background music on performance of Compound Remote Associate Tasks (CRATs), which are widely thought to tap creativity. Background music with foreign (unfamiliar) lyrics (Experiment 1), instrumental music without lyrics (Experiment…
Descriptors: Music, Creativity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Familiarity
Akram, Zara; McClelland, Alastair; Furnham, Adrian – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
The current study focused on whether fear-inducing content in television advertisements leads to better memory for the advertisement but also impairs memory for programme information that either precedes the advertisements (retroactive interference) or that follows the advertisements (proactive interference). Fifty-four participants (48 female)…
Descriptors: Fear, Advertising, Television, Memory
Jarosz, Andrew F.; Jaeger, Allison J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Word problems embed a math equation within a short narrative. Due to their structure, both numerical and linguistic factors can contribute to problem difficulty. The present studies explored the role of irrelevant information in word problems, to determine whether its negative impact is due to numerical (foregrounding hypothesis) or linguistic…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Equations (Mathematics), Interference (Learning), Memory
Liu, Xiaoxing; Thomas, Geb W.; Cook, Susan W. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Pointing to locations can either help or hinder people's ability to recall spatial information. Prior research has focused on two-dimensional spatial memory and pointing in real world tasks. The effect of pointing on three-dimensional spatial memory in virtual environments remains unexplored. We examine this effect by comparing participants'…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Short Term Memory, Virtual Classrooms, Recall (Psychology)
