Whether you are a student in experimental psychology, a researcher in cognitive neuroscience, or simply someone who wants to run behavioral tasks on your friends for fun, this book will offer you the skills to succeed.
Some of the most interesting aspects of the things we see come down to the psychology of perception (how our eyes see the world and how our brains make sense of that), not the physics of light. Color blindness and optical illusions are two examples of this. Artwork: How it is—and ...
If that seems unrealistic, a search for n=3 or n=4 in Nature and Science magazines will reveal recent experiments carried out with very small sample sizes in the biological sciences. Also, in psychology, interactions require much larger sample sizes than typically used, for instance when compari...
Sensory stimuli, such as tactile objects, auditory cues, and visual aids, can enhance learning to accommodate spatial learners in the classroom. You can also engage students in physical manipulation activities, such as building models, conducting experiments, or role-playing. The sensory learning styl...
DUBNER: Again, “Professor” is the perfect nickname for a mobster. DUCKWORTH: They call him “the professor.” And he has this new book called Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. But there was this one passage — it’s so related to this magic bullet psychology....
4. Music makes for easy decluttering. Listening to your favorite music can make decluttering so much easier. Music can improve our mood which makes the tasks at hand more enjoyable. I especially like that music helps our relationship with time. Noted in thisPsychology Today article, “Music ...
One common use of conditional branching in psychology experiments is to repeat trials that the subject got incorrect; for instance, one might want one’s subjects to achieve 90% correct on a block of trials before they continue to the next one, so the program would have something in it ...
Sets an expected outcome for a specific experiment or observation, based on the hypothesis. Testing Requirement 🧪 Can be tested over time through various methods, like experiments or observations, to verify the suggested relationship. Not directly tested; instead, observed as an outcome of testing...
A series of experiments revealed when people chewed gum right after listening to an especially catchy tune, they were less likely to be plagued by the pesky piece of music, according to the study published this week in The Journal of Experimental Psychology. ...
Thus, Experiment 2 was designed to narrow the gap between more typical experiments on search efficien- cy and the protocols used in our studies. Apart from that, it is interesting in its own right to see whether the result pattern is changed when the distractors are more homogeneous (Duncan...