Becoming Acquainted With Research

¶ … Acquainted with Research What is the name of your journal? -- Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition For whom does it seem to have been written? -- Experimental Psychologists and researchers, Cognitive psychologists, sensation and perception psychologists/researchers, people interested in how individuals process visual information in order to read. Choose a representative research article whose title interests you. Write the name of its time and briefly explain why it interests you.

Full Recognition of Parafoveal Words Precedes Skips During Reading This article seemed interesting because I often notice that when I read, even if I do not read every single word in a sentence, I still understand the meaning of the sentence. I was hoping to learn more about how the brain processes information in a way that allows it to seemingly skip over some pieces of information and yet still retain the overall meaning of the text that has been read. 4. How long is the article? 8 Pages long 5.

List the major sections of the article as defined by the heads. Literature Review (no heading) - An approach based on priming and the boundary technique - Current Experiment Method - Participants - Stimuli and Design - Procedure - Analysis of Eye Movements Results & Discussion - Target-Word Skipping - Reading Times on Word Preceding Target - Reading Times on Target Word - Reading Times on Word After Target Conclusion References 6. Does the author state the hypothesis of the research study? Write the hypothesis in the author's words.

No, the author does not have a specific hypothesis. Instead, they have a research question: "the critical question addressed by this study is whether repetition priming affects skipping when the preview string is a TL non-word generated from the target base word." 7. Write the hypothesis in your own words. The study is trying to find out whether we are more likely to skip certain nonsense words if we are first shown the correct version of the word at an earlier point in the sentence we are reading. 8.

Who made up the study population? 48 students from the University of North Carolina who were undergraduate students participated in the study for $10 or course credit. 9. Does the article contain a section on the method used in conducting the study? Describe the method. Participants read a number of sentences displayed to them on a computer screen. After each sentence they answered true false questions in order to test their comprehension and memory for the sentence. At the same time, their eye movements were measured/recorded using an eye tracking device.

In some of the sentences, some of the words displayed had transposed letters, and in others, there were no transposed letters. Also,.