scholarly journals Internal Working Models of Attachment Affect Interpersonal Information Processing: An Experimental Study Using a Lexical Decision Task

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Shima
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Internal Working Models ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Working Models ◽  
Internal Working ◽  
Interpersonal Information

scholarly journals Experimental Study on A Two-string Lexical Decision Task: Non-words and Words

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Shuyu Zhang ◽  
Sihong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Research School ◽  
National University ◽  
The One

<p class="0abstract"><strong>Abstract—</strong>This paper introduces the general purposes, hypotheses and designs of the lexical decision task and compares the results of several existing studies. Based on previous studies, three hypotheses are proposed. Then, it illustrates a two-lexical decision task designed and completed by the Research School of Psychology, Australian National University. In comparison with traditional lexical decision task, the two-string lexical decision task further tests participants’ response time to non-words and words. The results of the current two-string lexical decision task experiment verify the validity of previous studies on the one hand, while on the other hand, do not fully support the statement that participants would make faster responses to unrelated words than unrelated non-words. The findings of the current study directly provide cognitive processes for English lexical differentiation and learning, which could give hints to English lexical teaching and acquisition.</p>

Adolescents' Secure-Base Behavior from the Perspective of Information Processing

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-429
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Shima
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Internal Working Models ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Working Models ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Internal Working ◽  
Negative Relationships

Secure-base behavior in adolescents was examined from the perspective of information processing. The secure-base behavior was operationally defined as accessibility to attachment-related information and assessed by reaction time to target stimuli. Study 1 was conducted on 37 undergraduates (10 classes as Secure, 12 men, M age=19.3 yr.) to investigate whether differences in attachment styles would show different forms of information processing. There was a difference in reaction time to negative targets between Secure and Insecure participants. Study 2 was conducted on 45 undergraduates (8 classed as Secure, 22 men, M age = 19.4 yr.) to investigate whether activation of the internal working models would show different forms of information processing. There was a difference between Secure and Insecure participants in patterns of reaction time to stimuli for positive and negative relationships. Results were discussed on the basis of secure-base behavior.

Mutual Intelligibility of Standard and Regional Dutch Language Varieties

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leen Impe ◽  
Dirk Geeraerts ◽  
Dirk Speelman
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Language Variety ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Dutch Language

In this experimental study, we aim to arrive at a global picture of the mutual intelligibility of various Dutch language varieties by carrying out a computer-controlled lexical decision task in which ten target varieties are evaluated – the Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch standard language as well as four regional varieties of both countries. We auditorily presented real as well as pseudo-words in various varieties of Dutch to Netherlandic and Belgian test subjects, who were asked to decide as quickly as possible whether the items were existing Dutch words or not. The experiment's working assumption is that the faster the subjects react, the better the intelligibility of (the language variety of) the word concerned.

Effect of Emotions in a Lexical Decision Task

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Maire ◽  
Renaud Brochard ◽  
Jean-Luc Kop ◽  
Vivien Dioux ◽  
Daniel Zagar
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Attentional Orienting ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Sequence Effect ◽  
Emotion Induction ◽  
Before And After

Abstract. This study measured the effect of emotional states on lexical decision task performance and investigated which underlying components (physiological, attentional orienting, executive, lexical, and/or strategic) are affected. We did this by assessing participants’ performance on a lexical decision task, which they completed before and after an emotional state induction task. The sequence effect, usually produced when participants repeat a task, was significantly smaller in participants who had received one of the three emotion inductions (happiness, sadness, embarrassment) than in control group participants (neutral induction). Using the diffusion model ( Ratcliff, 1978 ) to resolve the data into meaningful parameters that correspond to specific psychological components, we found that emotion induction only modulated the parameter reflecting the physiological and/or attentional orienting components, whereas the executive, lexical, and strategic components were not altered. These results suggest that emotional states have an impact on the low-level mechanisms underlying mental chronometric tasks.

Are Emotions Abstract or Concrete?

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 315-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Xu ◽  
Chunyan Kang ◽  
Kaia Sword ◽  
Taomei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Lexical Decision ◽  
Lexical Decision Task ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
N400 Amplitude ◽  
Abstract Nouns ◽  
Concrete Nouns ◽  
Emotion Concepts ◽  
Healthy Participants

Abstract. The ability to identify and communicate emotions is essential to psychological well-being. Yet research focusing exclusively on emotion concepts has been limited. This study examined nouns that represent emotions (e.g., pleasure, guilt) in comparison to nouns that represent abstract (e.g., wisdom, failure) and concrete entities (e.g., flower, coffin). Twenty-five healthy participants completed a lexical decision task. Event-related potential (ERP) data showed that emotion nouns elicited less pronounced N400 than both abstract and concrete nouns. Further, N400 amplitude differences between emotion and concrete nouns were evident in both hemispheres, whereas the differences between emotion and abstract nouns had a left-lateralized distribution. These findings suggest representational distinctions, possibly in both verbal and imagery systems, between emotion concepts versus other concepts, implications of which for theories of affect representations and for research on affect disorders merit further investigation.

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