2. Dual Task Paradigm
●Educational Applications -- Learning how
people think facilitates instruction
●Deep processes – reasoning
●Surface processes – memorization
●Obviously, we want to facilitate deep
processes
●Perspective taking – deep or surface?
3. Background
●Psychology As a Science (PAS)
Questionnaire – own or professor’s
perspective
●PAS scores increased in the professor
condition, indicating less of an opinion
based answer
●PAS scores increase as year in school, GPA
and commitment to psychology increases
5. Background
●Revised Two-Factor Study Process
Questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F)
○Indicates whether participants typically use
deep or surface learning processes
○Paired with the PAS perspective scores to
determine association between
deep/surface styles and own/ professor
perspective
6. Procedure
●Participants were 91 university students
●About one third upper division
●Completed a consent form, demographic
questionnaire and two PAS questionnaires
(self and professor) and R-SPQ-2F
7. Dual Task Results
●Perspective taking not a deep process – no
correlation between scores
●Perspective taking not a surface process –
negative correlation between scores
●Self perspective not associated with deep
or surface scores
8. Discussion
●Surface process – what you are supposed
to think – not taking place
●Deep process also not taking place,
professor perspective not interpreted as
more internally logical
9. Hospice Study
●Terminally ill patients and family members
need attention to mental health and
spiritual needs
●Objective of study is to qualitatively
analyze the role of hospice workers in
bereavement and health outcomes
●To provide a foundation for study in this
area
10. Hospice Study
●Participants were patients in hospice,
caregivers and hospice workers.
●Visits taped by nurse with the consent of
patients
●Tapes coded for content
●Projects -- Blocking, RIAS and Positive
Emotion
12. Inattentional Blindness
●Gorilla Study and Distractor Task
●What makes IAB happen and what are the
mitigating factors
●Similarity of attended objects to target
may affect noticeability of target object
●Ongoing study
13. Partition Memory
●People typically look for objects in
context; in cheese section you don’t look
for cereal
●Participants should show faster RTs if
objects are assigned to contexts
●Contexts include outdoor scene and
top/bottom of screen
●Ongoing study
14. Visual Search
●Radiologists scan an image of tissue for
abnormalities
●Computer Aided Detection (CAD) software
can increase detectability, but reduce the
amount of attention devoted to image,
thus possibly actually increasing misses
●Study is to design CAD software that will
increase attention to image and aid in
detection
15. Visual Search
●Study involves naïve participants in a similar
task (TL search) with three CAD conditions
○No CAD
○Interactive CAD
○Auto CAD
●Eye-tracking is used to determine attention to
image
●RTs and accuracy are recorded
●Ongoing Study
