Bosutar, Aniela-Georgeana (2022) The role of warning signals for English words and non words. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper aims to explain previous studies’ findings investigating letter recognition accuracies for words and non-words based on the conceptual network of De Vries (2016). Past studies, predicted a hook-shaped pattern of letter recall accuracies in non-words, however, an unexpected peek at the third letter occurred. Another set of studies attempted to explain the peak by utilizing warning signals. The researchers hypothesized that a centered warning signal was expected to produce a peak in letter recall accuracy for nonwords, however, the results were not significant for German words and non-words. To explain the results of past studies, the current paper will account for head frequency, a variable that was not accounted for in past research. The current study will control for the head frequency of non-words, using only high head frequency English non-words. It is hypothesized that if participants will be presented with exclusively high-frequency nonwords, the results of this study will be similar to those of previous studies which used German words and nonwords, meaning that the distribution of accuracies will be hook-shaped. Moreover, the participants will be presented with centered and distributed warning signals, however, no effect of warning signals over letter recall accuracy is expected since only high-frequency nonwords will be used. To test for these hypotheses, an online letter recognition task following a 2x2x5 design was conducted (N= 45). The results of this study found support for the expected hook shape pattern
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Vries, P.H. de |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology (CPP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2022 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2022 10:40 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/145 |
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