Browsing Cognitive Psychology by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-01)This study explored the roles that vision and proprioception play in learning while throw a ball repeatedly to a fixed location. In two experiments, participants threw a baseball to a target 12 meters away while wearing ...
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Cladogram Curriculum: A First Look Into A Teaching Prototype For The Fundamentals Of Phylogenetics (Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-07)Past research has examined students’ comprehension of and reasoning with evolutionary relationships depicted by cladograms (i.e., tree thinking). Cladograms serve as a fundamental resource when studying macroevolution and ...
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(2007-05-08)The classical Thatcher effect (TE) is experienced when global inversion of a face makes it difficult to notice the local inversion of its parts (Thompson, 1980). The TE can be quantified by comparing the ease with which ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-01)How a problem is presented can influence students’ problem-solving performance. For example, including diagrams can alter students’ understanding, choice of strategy and accuracy on word problems. In this study, we examined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-15)Gestalt principles of grouping have been widely studied in diagrammatic reasoning because diagrams that follow these principles are easier to understand than those that are not (Lemon et al 2007, Stieff 2007, Novick and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-04)The present study researches university students' understanding of different forms of evolutionary diagrams. It is important to look at students' understanding of evolution so that teachers can use the most effective ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013)This study investigated how dopamine agonist medication differentially affects reward learning in Parkinson’s patients with and without Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs). We tested 16 patients (8 female, 5 with ICDs, mean ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)Learning to read English requires both knowledge of grapheme-phoneme (GP) rules and rapid recognition for familiar words, which can be mediated by whole-word (WW) mappings. Previous research has suggested that readers ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)This project investigated the differences in reaction times between recognition of objects by feelings of familiarity and recognition of objects through direct recollection. Participants were shown images in a study phase, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-18)The purpose of the study was to analyze the different contexts in which the social sharing of emotion occurs and the comparative benefits associated with two different contexts of emotion sharing. Previous research has ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-07-19)The aim of this study was to describe literacy across three generations of undergraduate students (the students, their parents, and their grandparents) in Southern African (at the University of Pretoria and at the University ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)This project investigated the benefits and costs of cueing on memory. Participants were shown images, some of which were cued as especially important to remember, in encoding blocks. The percentage of images cued changed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-21)The idea that "justice is blind" has been called into question by some reports that attractiveness affects judgments of punishment and guilt. However, such studies are handicapped by a number of limitations, which this ...