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Overattribution Effect, Sally Eimer
Overattribution Effect, Sally Eimer
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of judgments undergraduate students made regarding a child’s behavior they observed in a brief video clip. Their attributions were expected to be affected by a key situational factor that only some were informed of. The researcher hypothesized that participants informed that the child, in the clip, was recently diagnosed with leukemia would attribute the child’s behavior to situational factors, whereas participants not given any information about the child in the clip, would attribute the child’s behavior to things intrinsic of the child.
Does The Type Of Crime Determine If An Image Of A Certain Criminal Is Pictured?, Amanda Vance
Does The Type Of Crime Determine If An Image Of A Certain Criminal Is Pictured?, Amanda Vance
Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal
People have culturally been inclined to visualize a perpetrator simply based on the description of the crime. This experiment seeks to determine if a generalized criminal is expressed by the survey group for each crime. Simply put, it will identify if there exists a similar stereotype for each crime described. Each participant completed a questionnaire to identify their demographics. Next was given five crimes which were about robbery, shooting, rape, stolen identity, and murder to read over with the victim and location information omitted. Participants were asked to visualize and describe the perpetrator in each crime scene. The results concluded …
The Visual Perception Of Elasticity, Elizabeth Y. Wiesemann
The Visual Perception Of Elasticity, Elizabeth Y. Wiesemann
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Two experiments were designed to evaluate human sensitivity to elasticity. Elastic objects bend when a force is applied to them. Observers saw two computer-generated bending rods (defined by the motions of 50 dots) on any given trial and were required to judge which rod was more flexible. Elasticity difference thresholds were calculated for each observer for each of three bending conditions. The rods bent in a plane that was either frontoparallel or oriented 42.5 or 85 degrees from frontoparallel. The results showed that observers could precisely discriminate between bending rods of different elasticities, independent of whether the bendings occurred in …