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Sleep Does Not Enhance Motor Sequence Learning
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Rickard, Timothy C.; Cai, Denise J.; Rieth, Cory A.; Jones, Jason; Ard, M. Colin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Improvements in motor sequence performance have been observed after a delay involving sleep. This finding has been taken as evidence for an active sleep consolidation process that enhances subsequent performance. In a review of this literature, however, the authors observed 4 aspects of data analyses and experimental design that could lead to…
Descriptors: Research Design, Sleep, Inhibition, College Students
When Does Generation Enhance Memory for Location?
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Marsh, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Generation is thought to enhance both item-specific and relational processing of generated targets as compared with read words (M. A. McDaniel & P. J. Waddill, 1990). Generation facilitates encoding of the cue-target relation and sometimes boosts encoding of relations across list items. Of interest is whether generation can also increase the…
Descriptors: Memory, Cues, Association (Psychology), Experimental Psychology
Animal Research in Psychology: More than Meets the Eye of the General Psychology Student.
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Domjan, Michael; Purdy, Jesse E. – American Psychologist, 1995
Examines how the contributions of animal research are presented in eight of the most widely used introductory psychology textbooks. The authors show that, with the exception of principles of conditioning and learning, the contributions of animal research are often not explicitly acknowledged or are obscured to look like they had been obtained with…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology