15 Questions
Which of the following is NOT a reason for including experimental procedure details in a research report?
To discuss the broader impact of the findings
What is a confound in an experiment?
A systematic influence on the dependent variable other than the independent variables
Which of the following should be included in the experimental procedure details?
The stimulus presented to participants
In what tense should the experimental procedure be written?
Past tense
What is the purpose of including experimental procedure details in a research report?
To allow for replication of the study
True or false: A confound in an experiment refers to an aspect of the experiment that may influence the results of the dependent variable in a systematic way.
True
True or false: Experimental procedure details should include instructions given to the participants, stimulus presented, and how the participants responded to the stimulus.
True
True or false: The experimental procedure should be written in the present tense.
False
True or false: Details about how the program that presents the experiment was started should be included in the experimental procedure.
False
True or false: The experimental procedure should be written in chronological order of what the participant saw and did.
True
What was the reaction time for detecting orientation oddballs as the number of distractor items increased?
The reaction time decreased
What did Braun and Sagi find when testing arrays of 36 oriented Gabor items?
Profound attentional impairment
What did the experiments in the text suggest about visual feature search tasks?
They are sensitive to attentional load
What did Mack et al. find in their experiments?
A reduction in sensitivity to attentional resources
What does the text challenge regarding preattentive perception?
The existence of a separate privileged category of preattentive perception
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