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DAVIS, DANIEL J.; STOLUROW, LAWRENCE M. – 1965
AN EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION WAS DEVELOPED IN WHICH THE SUBJECT HAD THE TASK OF DETERMINING WHICH OF A SET OF POSSIBLE EVENTS HAD OCCURRED ON EACH TRIAL. THIS WAS DONE BY ASKING THE EXPERIMENTER QUESTIONS WHICH COULD BE ANSWERED "YES" OR "NO" UNTIL THE EVENT WAS NAMED. FOUR EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN WHICH STRATEGIES WERE…
Descriptors: Experiments, Information Processing, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques
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Hearst, Eliot; Franklin, Stanley R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1977
In three experiments the location of pigeons was monitored during 20-second illuminations of a right or left key presented in various temporal relationships with food delivery. In general, subjects approached a signal positively correlated with food and withdrew from a signal negatively correlated with food. (Editor)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Charts, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
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Leventahl, Howard; Cupchik, Gerald C. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1975
The present investigation sought to obtain further evidence to show that the difference between male and female subjects is not simply a matter of persuasibility but a difference in the way objective (male) and emotional (female) information processing systems respond to audience cues. (Author)
Descriptors: Audiences, Cartoons, Females, Humor
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Monahan, John S.; Lockhead, Gregory R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1977
Do observers analyze the stimulus into its logical components, as the experimenter does when constructing them, and judge these components separately, or do observers initially judge the entire stimulus in a holistic manner? (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Information Processing
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Coles, Michael G. H.; And Others – Journal of Research in Personality, 1975
This study explored the differential effects of a noxious stimulus under two conditions of information concerning the time of occurrence of the stress and two conditions of receiving temporal information. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Flow Charts, Information Processing, Personality Studies, Reaction Time
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Coles, Michael G. H.; Duncan-Johnson, Connie C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1975
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Heart Rate, Information Processing
Carpenter, William L. – 1971
This study was designed to measure adult performance as related to age. Using methodology derived from information theory, information processing ability was measured with the individuals performing as a communication system. Fifty-five school teachers, ranging in age from 20 to 66, served as subjects. In four groups, the subjects judged the sizes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Group Dynamics