Module Two Lab Worksheet Template
Complete this template by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. All responses to lab questions should be in your own words or paraphrased.
Change Detection Lab
Data
Insert your data in the table below.
Proportion Correct for No Flicker:
[Insert value] Reaction Time (ms) to No Flicker:
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Proportion Correct for Flicker:
[Insert value] Reaction Time (ms) to Flicker:
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Insert a screenshot of the lab output below.
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Lab Questions
How does the pattern of your individual data relate to the pattern of results predicted? Hint: See the lab introduction, the predicted results that come with your output, and the text.
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How did the gray field (the flicker) affect your proportion correct and RT? Why does the gray field tend to negatively affect accuracy and RT?
Why are we measuring both RT and accuracy? What does this tell you about how different people approach a task like this?
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What implications does this experiment on change blindness and flickers have regarding real-world situations?
Try to describe a specific sort of real-world situation: What would be the flicker in your example? Ensure that your example is your own, rather than one from course materials.
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Simon Effect Lab
Data
Insert your data in the table below.
Condition Reaction Time (ms)
Consistent [Insert value]
Inconsistent [Insert value]
Insert a screenshot of the lab output below.
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Lab Questions
How does the pattern of your individual data relate to the pattern of results predicted?
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Identify the independent and dependent variables in this lab.
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Spatial Cueing Lab
Data
Insert your data in the table below.
Mean Response Time
Condition Reaction Time (ms)
Valid [Insert value]
Neutral [Insert value]
Invalid [Insert value]
Insert a screenshot of the lab output below.
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Lab Questions
Did your individual results match the predicted results? If so, how so? If not, why not?
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If the spotlight model is false, what should your results have looked like, assuming you could pay attention to everything on the screen?
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How could we apply the concept of invalid cues in a specific real-world situation, for example, “faking someone out” while playing a particular sport or game? Feel free to make up your own example or elaborate on one above. What would be the invalid cue in your example?
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Stroop Effect Lab
Data
Insert your data in the table below.
Mean Reaction Time Same (ms): [Insert value]
Mean Reaction Time Different (ms): [Insert value]
Insert a screenshot of the lab output below.
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Lab Questions
Did your individual results match the predicted results? If so, how? If not, why not?
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Identify the independent and dependent variables in this demonstration.
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Module Question
Consider the role of new research in advancing the field of cognitive psychology. Applying research to new populations or taking a specific research methodology and applying it in a new way are strategies that can be used to develop new research questions and keep the field growing and evolving. As an example, clinical psychologists have applied the Stroop effect to the study of emotion.
An emotional Stroop test involves measuring reaction time in naming the font color of words, but words are either emotionally neutral (like tree or plate) or emotional (murder or death). People with certain mental health issues, like major depression, show a more pronounced emotional Stroop effect.
Can you think of a different way to apply the Stroop test?
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