In their studies on visual search and automaticity, Shiffrin…
In their studies on visual search and automaticity, Shiffrin and Schneider (1977) varied the number of distractors and they manipulated whether there was a varied or consistent mapping between targets and distractors. The graph below represents the results observed in one or more of their experimental conditions. Which conditions of their experiment produced results that match the graph?
Read DetailsYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve….
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of American was matriculating in a school for the blind.
Read DetailsThe only way to find out about those things is to make discr…
The only way to find out about those things is to make discreet inquiries at the proper moment. When I was a girl in Blue Mountain and it was suspected that a young man drank, the girl whose attentions he had been receiving, if any girl was, would sometimes speak to the minister of his church, or rather her father would if her father was living, and sort of feel him out on the young man’s character. That is the way such things are discreetly handled to keep a young woman from making a tragic mistake!
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