Experimental psychology research trends / Eleanor B. Hartonek, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartonek, Eleanor B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Experimental--Research.

Psychology, Experimental.

Psychology--Research.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Experimental psychology approaches psychology as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. Many experimental psychologists have gone further, and have assumed that all methods of investigation other than experimentation are suspect. In particular, experimental psychologists have been inclined to discount the case study and interview methods as they have been used in clinical and developmental psychology. This book brings together leading research from around the world in this field.

Contents:

Intro

EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGYRESEARCH TRENDS

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ASTOCHASTIC MODEL OF PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

COMPONENTS OF PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

CLASSIFICATIONS OF PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

THEORETICAL PROCESSING FRAMEWORKSFOR PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

Characteristics of the Prospective Memory Task

Characteristics of the Ongoing Task

Current Model of Prospective Memory

Advantages

Disadvantages

General Reaction Time Models

Random Walk and Diffusion Process Models

Race Model

Prospective Memory Diffusion Race (Pmdr) Model

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

PREDICTING WHERE FLY BALLS WILL LAND:LACK OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS OF HOWWE NAVIGATE TO CATCH BASEBALLS

LACK OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS OF HOW WE NAVIGATETO INTERCEPT TARGETS

Introduction

EXPERIMENT 1

Methods

SurveyParticipants

Design and Procedure

Results

Judging Landing Location

Participants

Survey

Design And Procedure

Predicting Where the Ball Will Land

DISCUSSION

EXPERIMENT 2

Method

Survey Participants

Ball Launcher and Balls

Layout of Field

Estimation of ½ and ¼ points of the ball flight

Recording of actual landing location

RESULTS

Predicting where the ball will land

AUTHOR NOTE

COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN COMMUNICATIONBETWEEN PILOTS AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Empirical Issues

Theoretical Issues

AUTHOR NOTES

THE EFFECT OF VISUO-SPATIAL ATTENTIONON LONG-TERM MEMORY ENCODING

DIVIDED ATTENTION AND MEMORY

THE PRESENT APPROACH

Results.

Discussion

Discussion

EXPERIMENT 3

EXPERIMENT 4

EXPOSURE TO AMBIGUOUS TONE SEQUENCESINDUCES SHORT-TERM PLASTICITY OF PITCHPERCEPTION

Visual and Auditory Pattern Recognition

TONAL PATTERN RECOGNITION

Models of Virtual Pitch Perception

INTERINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN AUDITORY PERCEPTION

Musical Competence

METHODS

Stimuli

Auditory Ambiguity Test (AAT)

Noise Shift Training (NST)

Present Fundamental Frequency Training (PFT)

SUBJECTS

PROCEDURE

Exposure Group

TRAINING GROUP

AAT Performance over the Entire Training Period(Two Training Blocks)

AAT Performance over the Spectral Training Block (NST)

AAT Performance overt Fundamental Pitch Training Block (PFT)

NST Performance

PFT Performance

EFFECT OF MELODIC INTERVAL (AAT, PFT, NST)

AAT Performance

NST AND PFT PERFORMANCE

EFFECT OF MELODIC F0-INTERVAL

THE INTERACTION OF AUTOMATICPROCESSES AND COGNITIVE RESOURCESIN READING:ACOMPENSATORY FRAMEWORK

AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN READING

LOCAL PROCESSES

CONSTRUCTING A SITUATION MODEL

Confusions: When Automatic Processes Falter or Fail

Compensatory-Encoding Theory

COMPENSATIONS: ACTIONS THAT AVERT OR RESOLVE CONFUSION

HYPOTHESES

COMPENSATION USE DURING UNRESTRICTED READING

THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR READINGRESEARCH AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: A FEW EXAMPLES FROM EDUCATION

FUTURE RESEARCH

AUTHORS NOTE

AMOTIVATIONAL-COGNITIVE APPROACHTO PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH ON PROSPECTIVE MEMORY.

RATIONALE FOR INVESTIGATING MOTIVATIONALFACTORS IN PROSPECTIVE MEMORY

AMOTIVATIONAL-COGNITIVE MODEL OF PROSPECTIVE MEMORY:THE INFLUENCE OF GOALS

Contemporary Goal Models

Overview of the Model

Evidence for the Motivational-Cognitive Model of Prospective Memory

A Study to Test Whether Goal-Relevant Prospective Memory Tasks are Judged as MoreImportant

Influences of Goals During Early and Middle Phases of the ProspectiveMemory Task

Three Studies to Test Whether People Use Strategies More Frequently for Goal-Relevant Prospective Memory Tasks

Evidence for Goal-Related Influences in the Middle Phase of the Prospective MemoryTask

Effects of Goal-Relatedness in Later Phases of the Prospective Memory Task

LABORATORY MEMORY TASKSAND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECOLLECTION:COGNITIVE AND NEUROFUNCTIONAL EVIDENCEFOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS OF EPISODIC MEMORY

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SUBDIVISIONS OF LONG-TERM MEMORY

3. THE EPISODIC MEMORY ACCOUNT

4. LABORATORY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICALEPISODIC MEMORY

4.1. Cognitive Neuropsychology of Episodic Memory

4.2. Brain Correlates of Episodic Memory

4.2.1. The Prefrontal Cortex

4.2.2. The Hippocampus

4.2.3. The Posterior Cingulate and Retrosplenial Cortices

5. DIRECT FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING COMPARISON OFLABORTORY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL EPISODIC MEMORY

6. IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRESENT REVIEW

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACOMPARATIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICALAPPROACH TO COGNITIVE ASSESSMENTIN CLINICAL POPULATIONS

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A DESCRIPTIONOF THE NOVEL TEST BATTERY

Object Discrimination Learning (ODL)

Object Discrimination Reversal (ODR)

Egocentric Discrimination Learning (EDL)

Egocentric Discrimination Reversal (EDR)

Delayed-Non-Match-to-Sample (DNMS).

Delayed-Non-Match-to-Position (DNMP)

STUDY 1: COGNITIVE DECLINE AND HUMAN AGING

Results and Discussion

STUDY 2: PROFILING STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSESIN FRAGILE-X SYNDROME

Future Directions

THE MECHANISMS OF MASKED SEMANTICPRIMING:ASTATE OF THE ART

MODERATING FACTORS OF MASKED SEMANTIC PRIMING

Prime Novelty

Intentions

Category Size

Target Set Size

Orthographic Overlap

DEPTH OF SUBLIMINAL PROCESSING: ACCOUNTS FROM ASEMANTICTO SEMANTIC

Direct Motor Specification Hypothesis

Subword Processing

Action Trigger Account

Category Search Model

Semantic Elaboration Account

A NEW ACCOUNT: THE CONTEXT-DEPENDENT PROCESSING ACCOUNT

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONTEXT-DEPENDENT PROCESSINGACCOUNT IN A BROADER THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: GLOBALNETWORK HYPOTHESIS

THE ROLE OF ALLELES 4 AND 2 OF THE APOE GENEAND COGNITIVE TESTS IN THE EARLY CONVERSIONOF MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTTO ALZHEIMER DEMENTIA

Genetic Study

Statistical Analysis

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61209-768-5

OCLC:

698111660