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PSYC 2001 B - Final Research Report - My grade 93% - Professor John Logan

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PSYC 2001 (PSYC2001)

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Carleton University (CU )

this is my final research paper report from professor John Logan's Fall 2021 PSYC 2001 B class at Carleton University. The research report is on the word frequency effect and includes all my graphs and analysis, my grade was a 93% on this assignment. this document is being posted for information pu...

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Uploaded on January 8, 2022
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Written in 2021/2022
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INVESTIGATION OF WORD FRQUENCY EFFECT

Investigation of the Word Frequency Effect Using a Lexical Decision Task

Alyssa Weise

Carleton University, Ottawa

December 6, 2021

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INVESTIGATION OF WORD FRQUENCY EFFECT

Abstract

Building on research done by Howes and Solomon (1951) and McGinnies et al. (1952)

related to how length, duration threshold and frequency of a presented word affects how easily

an individual can recognize it, the present study explores these same effects with the use of a

lexical decision task. This research was conducted using data from 101 Carleton University

students who completed the experiment online through pavlovia.com where they participated in

a 120-trial word experiment having to identify in ten seconds whether the letter string that was

quickly displayed was a word or a nonword. Through compiling and analyzing the collected data

using two word counts it was demonstrated that in correlation with Howes and Solomon’s

research, individuals were able to more accurately identify frequent words than less frequent

words, and unlike McGinnies et al study, there was no word length effect present.

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