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Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of and Engagement in Research Participation to Fulfill an Introductory Psychology Course Requirement
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Beanland, Vanessa; Walsh, Erin I.; Pammer, Kristen – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
It is a common, if controversial, practice to recruit undergraduate psychology students as research participants. There is substantial research concerning putative educational benefits for students, but as students increasingly have freedom to choose between studies to meet participation requirements, factors underlying student choice of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses, Required Courses
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
Context Effects in Multi-Alternative Decision Making: Empirical Data and a Bayesian Model
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Hawkins, Guy; Brown, Scott D.; Steyvers, Mark; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Cognitive Science, 2012
For decisions between many alternatives, the benchmark result is Hick's Law: that response time increases log-linearly with the number of choice alternatives. Even when Hick's Law is observed for response times, divergent results have been observed for error rates--sometimes error rates increase with the number of choice alternatives, and…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Reaction Time, Context Effect, Decision Making
Perceptual Grouping, Not Emotion, Accounts for Search Asymmetries with Schematic Faces
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Becker, Stefanie I.; Horstmann, Gernot; Remington, Roger W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Several different explanations have been proposed to account for the search asymmetry (SA) for angry schematic faces (i.e., the fact that an angry face target among friendly faces can be found faster than vice versa). The present study critically tested the perceptual grouping account, (a) that the SA is not due to emotional factors, but to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Human Body, Visual Stimuli, 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
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)