Cognitive Psychology Practicals Online Resource
Designed by George Lovell and Ken Scott-Brown of
Abertay University
Equipment Required
Most of these experiments will now work with a laptop,
smart-phone or tablet. It's likely that the screen of a smartphone
may be a bit too small for some of the studies to run correctly,
but will enable you to experience the studies at least.
Those studies that need a keyboard are indicated, you'll find
they 'hang' at certain points on smart-phones and tablets
Participant Information
Most of these studies will retain your responses on each trial
(reaction times and accuracy), if you do not wish to have these data
retained then do not participate in the studies. Some of the studies
give the option of entering a participant ID at the beginning, do
not enter your real name or any identifiable ID, leave the space
blank or enter random numbers. Data acquired by each study are
anonymised and shared on the Open Science Framework for the benefit
of education in statistics and research methods.
Early Vision
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Objects
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Faces
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Attention
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Memory
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Thinking and Biases
| Run the study |
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Now that most of the studies run on phones and tablets it's
possible to embed QR codes in lectures so that students can run
the studies during your presentation for each link <click here to download the images>.