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Smith, S. Adam; Mulligan, Neil W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The typical pattern of results in divided attention experiments is that subjects in a full attention (FA) condition perform markedly better on tests of memory than subjects in a divided attention (DA) condition which forces subjects to split their attention between studying to-be-remembered stimuli and completing some peripheral task.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Tests, Memory, Task Analysis
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Price, Paul C.; Kimura, Nicole M.; Smith, Andrew R.; Marshall, Lindsay D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Previous research has shown that people exhibit a sample size bias when judging the average of a set of stimuli on a single dimension. The more stimuli there are in the set, the greater people judge the average to be. This effect has been demonstrated reliably for judgments of the average likelihood that groups of people will experience negative,…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Statistical Bias, Visual Perception, Pictorial Stimuli