PSY 0420: Laboratory in Human Cognitive Psychology

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PSY 0420 Laboratory in Human Cognitive Psychology
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Todays Goals

• Lab overview
• Review research process

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Research Process

• In small groups, list what components are
  involved in the research process.
• Then, draw a diagram illustrating how the
  components are connected.

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Research Process
Lab Schedule
Group
Individual
Research Report
Week 2
Introduction
Form Research Question Hypothesis
Week 10
Method
Design Experiment
Week 7
Week 11
Collect Data
Week 8
Week 12
Results
Analyze Data
Week 9
Discussion
Draw Conclusions
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How Its All Connected
Research Question
Hypothesis
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DV
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Kosslyn, S. M. (1976). Can Imagery be
Distinguished from Other Forms of Internal
Representation? Evidence from Studies of
Information Retrieval Times. Memory Cognition,
4(3), 291-297.

• The previous results of Kosslyn (1975) would
  lead us to predict, however, that size should
  influence the ease of detecting a property on an
  image smaller properties should take more time
  to evaluate than larger properties

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Stanfield, R. A. Zwaan, R. A. (2001). The
Effect of Implied Orientation Derived from Verbal
Context on Picture Recognition. Psychological
Science, 12(2), 153-156.

• perceptual symbol theories predict that
  participants will exhibit shorter recognition
  latencies to matching pictures than to
  mismatching pictures. Amodal theories, in
  contrast, predict that recognition latencies will
  not differ between these conditions.