Different Tasks

Question 1

Sternberg Task

Answer 1

given a list of letters, one at a time, one per second (memory set) and then your shown a single letter (probe) your asked to respond yes/no if the probe was in the memory set

Question 2

Stroop Task

Answer 2

a colour word is written in a different ink colour than the word and you’re asked to say the ink colour

it’s difficult to name the ink colour when the colour word your reading is different

Question 3

Sentence Verification Task

Answer 3

given a sentence and asked to make a quick judgement

ex. robins are birds and penguins are bird (people are more slow to respond to the penguins)

Question 4

Rating Task

Answer 4

asked to assign confidence ratings to yes/no responses

ex. how fruity is an apple: scale of 1-7

Question 5

Digit Span Task

Answer 5

given a list of digits to recall and the list gets larger until your memory fails

Question 6

Production Task

Answer 6

asked to produce as many objects from a category as you can

ex. write down as many fruits as you can

Question 7

Paired Association Task (interferences)

Answer 7

asked to describe how word pairs are associated

ex. rainbow - colors: the colors make up the rainbow

Question 8

DRM Procedure (intrusion errors)

Answer 8

read a list of words that have a common theme and ask participants to recall those words and often write down a critical lure

Question 9

critical lure (DRM procedure)

Answer 9

a word highly related to other words in a list but doesn’t actually appear

Question 10

Wason Card Problem

Answer 10

shown a set of 4 cards, each has a number on one side and a colour on the other

asked which card to turn over to test if a card shows an even number on one side, the colour blue is on the other

Question 11

Word Stem Completion Task (implicit)

Answer 11

give people words that are partially complete and they are asked to complete the word by adding 1+ letters

Question 12

Brown Peterson Task

Answer 12

given a trigram and right after your asked to count back from a three-digit number which interferes with recall

Question 13

Dichotic Listening Task

Answer 13

presenting two different stimuli in both ears to reveal the dominant hemisphere depending on which one you pay attention to

Question 14

Recognition Task (explicit)

Answer 14

yes/no task where people are asked if they saw the stimulus

Question 15

Shadowing Task

Answer 15

a message is played in one ear while someone is talking in your other ear and you’re asked to repeat one of the messages out loud

Question 16

Underwater/Land Study

Answer 16

gave some participants information underwater while the others on land: people who learned the info underwater recalled better underwater than when they were asked to recall on land and vice versa