Essays Tagged: "Experimental Psychology"

Comparing The Time Difference in Sorting Fifty-Two Cards by Color Versus Suit: an experiment done for a psychology class

nd diamonds).MethodSubjectsThe subjects consisted of nineteen students enrolled in an undergraduate experimental psychology class at Queens College. The class used in the experiment was composed of si ... dard fifty-four-card deck and removing the two jokers. The data were compiled using a pen and paper.Experimental DesignThe experiment used a repeated measures design with two conditions. To minimize p ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

History of William Wundt, the psychologist.

y of a measurable stimuli (and reactions) could make psychological events open to something such as experimental tactic. This opposed belief of all earlier philosophers, such as Kant.Wundt developed a ... side for his experimentation in sensation and perception. We celebrate this year as the founding of experimental psychology, due to William Wundt. In 1881, he began his journal "Philosophische Studien ...

(1 pages) 51 0 5.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Memory Recall Using Free Recall vs. Serial Recall

o xxxxxxxx undergraduate students. The thirty-two participants were all students in Professor xxxxx Experimental Psychology class, however half were in Wednesday night lab, and the second half were in ... for experiment 1B was twenty-four. Similar to experiment 1A the sample size was divided between two experimental psychology classes that met during the same time slots as groups in 1A met. The main di ...

(4 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Henry Murray Paper

wpoints. His background in medicine, biology, Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, and clinical and experimental psychology enabled him to develop this interdisciplinary approach to psychology. His th ...

(5 pages) 52 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Henry Murray Paper

wpoints. His background in medicine, biology, Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis, and clinical and experimental psychology enabled him to develop this interdisciplinary approach to psychology. His th ...

(5 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

David McClelland

.M. from the University of Missouri in Psychology • 1941: o Obtains a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Yale University o Becomes Instructor of Psychology at Connectic ...

(7 pages) 49 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

The Left vs. the Right Brain

ne with biomedical research over time, as was the case with medieval psychologists, the concepts of experimental psychology and clinical psychology began emerging. From that point, different branches ...

(4 pages) 76 2 3.3 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Written Word Comprehension

ecognize the individual words that are printed on the page. There is a very large literature within experimental psychology dealing with the recognition of printed words (Rayner & Pollatsek, 1989) ... lexical contexts on naming time: Evidence for autonomous lexical processing". Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 465 - 495.Forster K. I. ( 1979). "Levels of processing and the structu ...

(12 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2012

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics