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The Cognitive Psychology
Book Companion Website
http://www.cengage.com/psychology/goldstein
Prepare for quizzes and exams with online resources—
including a glossary, fl ashcards, tutorial quizzes, crossword
puzzles, and more.
CogLab
To experience these experiments for yourself, go to coglab.
wadsworth.com. Be sure to read each experiment’s setup
instructions before you go to the experiment itself. Otherwise,
you won’t know which keys to press.
Primary Labs
Partial report The partial report condition of Sperling’s iconic
memory experiment (p. 122).
Brown-Peterson How memory for trigrams fades (p. 124).
Memory span How memory span depends on the nature of
stimuli that are presented (p. 125).
Phonological similarity eff ect How recall for items on a list is
affected by how similar the items sound (p. 133).Operation span Measuring the operation-word span, a mea-
sure of working memory (p. 141).Related Labs
Apparent movement How the perception of movement can
be achieved by fl ashing still images (p. 120).Irrelevant speech eff ect How recall for items on a list is
affected by the presence of irrelevant speech.Modality eff ect How memory for the last one or two items in
a list depends on whether the list is heard or read.Position error What happens when trying to remember the
order of a series of letters.Sternberg search A method to determine how information is
retrieved from short-term memory.MEDIA RESOURCES
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