Recently added articles from The Journal of General Psychology:
A study of temporal estimation from the perspective of the mental clock model.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN SPITE OF THE HETEROGENEITY of the extensive literature on the perception of time, a common ground is the evidence, initially recognized by James (1890), that human beings are seldom accurate in their evaluations of elapsed time. In general, there are two possible judgment biases when an ...
Features of autobiographical memory: theoretical and empirical issues in the measurement of flashbulb memory.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN THEIR 1977 PAPER, BROWN AND KULIK DEFINED flashbulb memories (FBMs) as vivid, detailed, and long-lasting autobiographical memories for attributes of the reception context of relevant public news. According to them, people may, for a long time, retain not only the original event itself ...
Mediation analysis: a retrospective snapshot of practice and more recent directions.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... IN 1986, R. BARON AND KENNY PRESENTED a method, commonly known as mediation analysis, for demonstrating that a data set is consistent with a model in which an intervening (or middle) variable helps explain how an independent variable influences a dependent variable. Researchers ...
The usefulness of retrieval practice and review-only practice for answering conceptually related test questions.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE PRESENT RESEARCH EXAMINED the usefulness of practice tests in the hypothetical, but realistic, scenario of students' last-minute preparation for an introductory psychology test. The motivation behind this research was the recognition that, although practice tests are among the contents ...
Modality effects in sentence recall.(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... POTTER AND LOMBARDI (1990) INTRODUCED the lure-intrusion paradigm to measure short-term sentence recall. Their finding that the lure was remembered as part of the sentence was important because it showed that recall involved more than just verbatim recall from short-term memory. Some ...
Understanding disordered eating at midlife and late life.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... CURRENT THINKING REGARDING EATING DISORDERS suggests that their onset, progression, and treatment are related to a combination of sociocultural influences, psychological resources, and physiological factors (Park, 2007). Most eating disorders have their onset in late adolescence and ...
The role of cognitive operations in reality monitoring: a study with healthy older adults and Alzheimer's-type dementia.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... OVER THE PAST DECADE, there has been a considerable amount of renewed interest in age-related changes in source monitoring (for a review see Marsh, Balota, & Roediger, 2005), and a considerable number of studies have shown how source monitoring is generally negatively affected by aging. In ...
Performance as a function of ability, resources invested, and strategy used.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... IN THE PRESENT STUDY, we focused on the complex relations between (a) the level of performance of individuals (an observable variable) and (b) the ability of the individuals, amount of cognitive resources they allocate to the task, and strategy deployed by the individual for performing it ...
Taste-aversion conditioning, but not immunosuppression conditioning, occurs under partial water deprivation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... IMMUNOSUPPRESSION CONDITIONING (i.e., the capacity to decrease the magnitude of the antibody response by classical conditioning) was discovered serendipitously by Ader and Cohen (1975). They performed an experiment on taste-aversion conditioning, in which the conditioned stimulus was a ...
Differential recall of consent information and parental decisions about enrolling children in research studies.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... MEDICAL ETHICISTS HAVE ONLY RECENTLY begun conducting studies of factors that influence parental decisions to enroll minors in medical or behavioral research. For obvious reasons, few truly experimental studies of this process have been carried out in a medical context: When a child is ...
Mirror neurons: the complete story.(Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions (F. Anderson, Trans.). New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 200 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-921798-4, $49.95. OVER THE PAST DECADE, there has been a lot of research interest in mirror ...
Aging and eating disorders: editor's introduction.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2008; ... WITH GREAT PLEASURE, I GUEST EDIT this special issue of The Journal of General Psychology, which is devoted to two topics that at first glance appear unrelated: aging and eating disorders. In fact, I imagine that when thinking of eating disorders, most people think of younger adults (and ...
Body image and eating disorders in older adults: a review.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE CONSTRUCT OF BODY IMAGE has been defined as a multidimensional attitude toward one's body that includes perceptual, affective, and cognitive components (Cash, Antis, & Strachan, 1997), but the current emphasis of researchers on body image is on shape, weight, and the degree to which ...
100 midlife women with eating disorders: a phenomenological analysis of etiology.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ETIOLOGY of eating disorders (EDs) in young women cohorts has been extensively researched and articulated in multiple books and articles (e.g., Costin, 2007; Fairburn & Brownell, 2002; Zerbe, 1995). Distorted body image, trauma history, dysfunctional parent-child ...
Aging, body image, and body shape.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE ISSUE OF EATING DISORDERS and body image disturbances co-occurring has been a worldwide problem for decades (Gotesdam & Agras, 1995; Paxton, Neumark-Sztainer, Hannan, & Eisenberg, 2006; Smolak, 2006) Although the majority of research and treatment on eating disorders and their related ...
Eating disorders in middle-aged women.
Oct 01, 2008; ... EATING DISORDERS are generally considered to occur almost exclusively among adolescent and young adult females, and current diagnostic systems support that perception. For example, because both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; ...
The impact of obesity on the social participation of older adults.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... NEARLY 70% OF THE ADULTS in the United States are overweight and more than 30% are obese (National Center for Health Statistics, 2007). Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity has more than doubled among American adults (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). The media and ...
Graduate students' social and emotional functioning relative to characteristics of eating disorders.(Clinical report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... EATING DISORDERS have been studied from numerous theoretical perspectives (e.g., Garner & Garfinkel, 1980; Leung, Geller, & Katzman, 1996; Mintz & Wright, 1993; Striegel-Moore & Cachelin, 2001; Tylka & Subich, 2004) with the prevailing thought that an interaction of multiple factors ...
A Stroop effect for spatial orientation.(John Ridley Stroop's Color-Word Interference Test )(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... A PROMINENT EXPERIMENTAL PARADIGM for investigating visual selective attention in humans is the Stroop Color-Word Interference Test (1935). Stroop developed this paradigm to compare the associative strength between colors and vocal color naming responses with the associative strength ...
Children's theories of intelligence: beliefs, goals, and motivation in the elementary years.(Report)
Jul 01, 2007; ... CHILDREN'S BELIEFS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE have been studied extensively both because of their implications for social cognition (e.g., in children's theory of mind: Yuill, 1992, 1997; in general concept development: Ruble & Dweck, 1995) and because these beliefs are posited to influence ...