"Lexical Decision"
1. APA-style reference for the article
Meyer, D. E., & Schvaneveldt, R. W. (1971). Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. Journal of experimental psychology, 90(2), 227.
2. Goal of article: State the research questions and/or hypotheses being investigated (What are they trying to do?) (Four sentences to one paragraph)
3. List three (3) cognitive psychology terms important for the topic of the article, find their definitions or descriptions in any CogPsy textbook (give reference) and provide them here:
4. Describe ALL the dependent variables for the designated experiment:
5. Describe ALL the independent variables for the designated experiment:
6. Describe how the experiment was conducted, i.e., what was the procedure: (4-6 sentences)
7. Identify all the main effects and interactions (if the design is factorial). Make sure you state the main effect for EACH independent variable you named in (5):
8. Steps or conclusions suggested by the article (One paragraph):
9. Using your knowledge of semantic networks, how could you set up a lexical decision task in order to find out if "sheep" is more or less related to "lamb" compared to "wool"? (One-two paragraphs).
10. Create a design (IVs, DV, materials) of a hypothetical experiment to test the structure of that part of the mental lexicon that represents the words "garage", "car', and "gasoline" and describe what you predict the results will look like. Use the findings in the article for you predcitions.(One-two paragraphs).