The IA experiment I have decided on is a cognitive study that I stumbled across on this website: http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm (#6 under “Perception, Thinking and Performance”)
“People are first predisposed to think about a particular set of objects e.g. fruit or letters of the alphabet, by showing them pictures. Then an ambiguous picture is flashed to them which could be a banana or a letter 'C' for example. The hypothesis is that they will label the object according to the set of objects they saw previously.”
The aim of this study would be to see if the participants would, in fact, say that an object shown to them belongs in the previously seen set of objects. I chose this study because I thought it would be interesting to do an experiment with visuals and (forgive the pun) this study caught my eye.
I chose an experiment on memory from http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm. It is number six under Memory.
"Participants asked how fast cars were going when they ‘smashed’ into each other, after viewing a car accident, report greater speeds than do participants asked the speed when they ‘hit’ each other. The former group is more likely to report seeing broken glass (when none is there) a week later. Participants are more likely to report seeing broken glass if the question uses ‘did you see the broken glass?’ rather than ‘....any broken glass?’.
The aim of the study is to see if the participant's perception of the situation changes when different words and questoins are used. I chose this subject because I find it interesting that the participants say they see things that are not there. And that the participants saw the same thing, but they described it differently beacuase of a one word difference.
My study can be found on http://www.lmsd.org/staff/wjyoung/Internal_Assessment.htm and it is the 7th bullet in Perception.
The experiment will have the subject be "presented briefly with a list of words about a topic e.g. letter, post, stamp etc. which they have to write down - and then one of them is misspelled e.g. mael, and the hypothesis is that because a strong mental concept of the topic has been set up that they will write down the word as 'mail'.
The aim is to see whether patterns in words will cause a person to overlook a misspelled word and write it down how it should be spelled rather than how it IS spelled. I chose this experiment because this happens to me constantly.
My study can be found on: http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm under B PERCEPTION, THINKING AND PERFORMANCE on the second number 1.
"Participants name the color of ink that words are written in when the words themselves are contradictory color words i.e. 'red' written in yellow ink."
Aim: To see if the participants take a lot longer to name the color in contradictory color compared to naming them when they are the same color i.e. 'red' is in the color red.
Can be found on http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm
Memory interference: This could be nicely applied to school revision. Subjects have to learn for example a list of words and then recall them. However, memory is interfered with by learning another list of words but some subjects learn this interfering list before the main list and some learn it after the main list to see which has the greater effect.
The IA experiment I have decided on is a cognitive study that I stumbled across on this website: http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm (#6 under “Perception, Thinking and Performance”)
ReplyDelete“People are first predisposed to think about a particular set of objects e.g. fruit or letters of the alphabet, by showing them pictures. Then an ambiguous picture is flashed to them which could be a banana or a letter 'C' for example. The hypothesis is that they will label the object according to the set of objects they saw previously.”
The aim of this study would be to see if the participants would, in fact, say that an object shown to them belongs in the previously seen set of objects. I chose this study because I thought it would be interesting to do an experiment with visuals and (forgive the pun) this study caught my eye.
I chose an experiment on memory from http://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm. It is number six under Memory.
ReplyDelete"Participants asked how fast cars were going when they ‘smashed’ into each other, after viewing a car accident, report greater speeds than do participants asked the speed when they ‘hit’ each other. The former group is more likely to report seeing broken glass (when none is there) a week later. Participants are more likely to report seeing broken glass if the question uses ‘did you see the broken glass?’ rather than ‘....any broken glass?’.
The aim of the study is to see if the participant's perception of the situation changes when different words and questoins are used. I chose this subject because I find it interesting that the participants say they see things that are not there. And that the participants saw the same thing, but they described it differently beacuase of a one word difference.
My study can be found on http://www.lmsd.org/staff/wjyoung/Internal_Assessment.htm and it is the 7th bullet in Perception.
ReplyDeleteThe experiment will have the subject be "presented briefly with a list of words about a topic e.g. letter, post, stamp etc. which they have to write down - and then one of them is misspelled e.g. mael, and the hypothesis is that because a strong mental concept of the topic has been set up that they will write down the word as 'mail'.
The aim is to see whether patterns in words will cause a person to overlook a misspelled word and write it down how it should be spelled rather than how it IS spelled. I chose this experiment because this happens to me constantly.
My study can be found on:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm under B PERCEPTION, THINKING AND PERFORMANCE on the second number 1.
"Participants name the color of ink that words are written in when the words themselves are contradictory color words i.e. 'red' written in yellow ink."
Aim: To see if the participants take a lot longer to name the color in contradictory color compared to naming them when they are the same color i.e. 'red' is in the color red.
Can be found on
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ibpsychology.com/Internal%20assessment/ia.htm
Memory interference: This could be nicely applied to school revision. Subjects have to learn for example a list of words and then recall them. However, memory is interfered with by learning another list of words but some subjects learn this interfering list before the main list and some learn it after the main list to see which has the greater effect.
-Maxine