10 5 15 PSY 317 Notes Housekeeping Exam 1 Feel free to ask questions about the homework in class or during office hours Prof o Average Score 83 56 Miller would be happy to help Assignment 2 o A big issue for a lot of people Describing the task The number of stimuli on the screen play a big role in this phenomena Make sure to include the number of items o This will always be a question on homework assignments 26 respondents only 65 of class responded to the survey Informal Course Survey o Course Basics Level of the material 100 just right Pace of the material Trouble with the material o Course Details 80 good pace 8 too slow 11 5 too fast 77 are not having trouble with the material 23 having some difficulty with the material Classroom size room size and desks generally disliked Remember the hand raising policy Remember the electronics policy and separate yourselves if you must be distracting Most Difficult Concept It s a great idea even if no one uses it Hands on Learning Activities There will be more of these further in the semester Multiple choice questions related to the exam People will be allowed to generate their own questions and either put them on the parking lot forum or send them to Prof Miller Homework PowerPoint Talk about the homework before it s due Not a fan but it s useful because it helps people get back on track Attendance and Late Policies It sucks but it s necessary Recap Recognizing Words Recognition o Factors affecting recognition Familiarity 10 5 15 How often newspapers magazines blogs use each word o Corpus study Word Recognition Paradigm o A word flashes on the screen followed by a mask of random letters and people are more likely to remember it if it is a more familiar word o Presenting a word once to participants and then presenting that same word later Priming Recency When asked to recall a list of words letters people are more likely to be able to recall items beginning from the end of the list Word Superiority Effect Words are going to be easier to recognize than random combinations of letters 2 alternative forced choice task 2AFC Task o Stimulus presented world letter mask Did you see an E or a K Stimuli o DARE DARK JPRWE TVCWK o Notice that the first three letters of the words are the same so you can t use the word to help you Degree of Well Formedness See the word superiority effect for words that look like English ex FIKE LAFE but not for letter strings that do not look like English words ex HZYE SBNE JPSR Our knowledge about words also affects how we read certain letter strings Tendency to see a proper word error o Think about typos in emails there are probably many that you do not even notice Suggests that our knowledge of the English language can guide recognition o Errors Feature Nets 10 5 15 Older about 50 years theory that explains some of the phenomena that we ve discussed thus far o Network theory for how the brain might work Activation level lowest level of network that activates upper levels of the network Thresholds point at which the node will fire