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Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Let's Get Physical: The Dual-Task Costs Of Multiple Motor Responses, Taylor Nicole Hutson
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Dual-task costs occur when attention is divided among two or more concurrent tasks. Most dual-task studies involve paradigms where participants complete two, concurrent cognitive tasks; in these studies, performance on one or both tasks are slower and/or less accurate. The goal of this study was to examine whether dual-task costs would exist when participants completed a cognitive task while walking and whether those costs would be greater when the cognitive task required a motor-based response or when the task was more difficult. Twenty-two college students completed four blocks of a visual search task while walking. The difficult and the manual …
Seeing You From Your Point Of View: Perspective-Taking And First Impression Accuracy, Kathryn Graeff
Seeing You From Your Point Of View: Perspective-Taking And First Impression Accuracy, Kathryn Graeff
Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
This study assessed whether perspective-taking (considering another’s perspective, thoughts, and feelings; Davis, 1983) causes greater distinctive accuracy (judging another’s unique traits), normative accuracy (judging another as similar to the average person and positively), and distinctive assumed similarity (judging another’s personality as similar to one’s own personality) in first impressions of personality. College students (N = 429) received either perspective-taking instructions or no specific instructions before watching videos of seven individuals (targets) answering getting-to-know-you questions. Participants then rated each target’s personality. Taking the targets’ perspectives did not improve distinctive accuracy or distinctive assumed similarity. However, participants who reported actively trying or …