The effects of divided attention at study and test on false recognition

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The purpose of these assignments is to give you the opportunity to act as both a participant and experimenter in cognitive psychology experiments. In science, it is very important that researchers are able to clearly communicate their findings with other researchers as well as the public. All good writing shares some of the same features, but in science one important goal is to make sure the reader understands what was done in the research, why it was so important that it was done, how the results were evaluated, and what the results are able to teach us. All this should be done is as few words as possible while still being very clear to the reader.  During class you will participate in replications of classic cognitive psychology experiments using Top Hat. The point of the assignments is to give you hands on experience both participating in experiments and acting as an experimenter. The more students that participate in the class experiments, the better the assignment will work and the more you will get out of it. I will perform simple statistical analyses based on the class data and present it the following class. You will then be expected to write lab reports based on the class data from 2 of the experiments we will complete throughout the term. There will be 6 in-class experiments during the term. You should write your first lab report about Experiments 1, 2, or 3. You should write your second lab report about Experiments 4, 5, or 6.  The written reports are intended to give you practice writing clear and concise summaries. The reports should be no more than 5 pages double-spaced, excluding title page, abstract, and references. Graders may stop reading any papers that are longer than the 5-page limit. For all of the reports make sure you write in APA style. I have included many links on the course website to resources you can use to learn how to correctly use APA style.