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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000099">COGNITIVE EXPERIMENTS</font></font></h1></center>

<blockquote><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>The
set of cognitive experiments were written primarily as demonstrations of
classical experiments in psychology.&nbsp; However, students have used
them extensively to create their own experiments.&nbsp; The only disadvantage
is that you must write down your data after each subject and then enter
into Quattro Pro or Systat for analysis.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>You might take
a look at the experiments in the Cognitive program and write something
similar in Superlab and have full control over your variables.</font></font></font>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Each experiment
in the Cognitive program has a brief introduction and several references
to articles.&nbsp; That is a good place to start.</font></font></font>
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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000">Stroop Effect</font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000">Lexical Decision Making</font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000">Recall</font></font></li>
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<ol><b><font face="Verdana"><font color="#85645C"><font size=-1>Possible
variations include:</font></font></font></b>
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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Changing the word
list in the Recall experiment to contrast different types of words.</font></font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Giving different
instructions to subjects to test for learning set.</font></font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Changing the level
of stress by varying the amount of time given for a task.</font></font></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana"><font color="#000099">Previous Experiments by UMF
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<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Contrasted the performance on the paper
version of the Stroop and the computer version.</font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Compared the performance of males and
females on the Stroop task.</font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Compared the recall of high frequency
words to low frequency words.</font></font></li>

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<font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>Correlated lexical decision making performance
with major in school.</font></font></li>
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<blockquote><font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>At present, the Cognitive
Experiments are located on the computer in my office.&nbsp; To use the
program, when you start the computer choose Psychology on the first menu
by hitting the up arrow once.&nbsp; You will be presented with a second
menu.&nbsp; Use the arrow keys to choose Cognitive Experiments.</font></font>
<p><font face="Verdana"><font size=-1>As always, we will be happy to help
you the first few times until you are comfortable using the program.</font></font></blockquote>

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<p><font face="Verdana"><font color="#666666"><font size=-2>&copy; <a href="mailto:mshea@maine.edu">Marilyn
Shea</a>, November 1999</font></font></font>
<br><font face="Verdana"><font color="#666666"><font size=-2>Department
of Psychology, University of Maine at Farmington</font></font></font>
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