Attention: Gray and Wedderburn 1960 Participants were presented with three-syllable words and three-digit sequences in the same voice, alternating ears. The only cues available, therefore, were meaning and ear-of-arrival.
Attention: Green and Swets 1966 This is a classic experiment on signal detection, involving detecting a tone in white noise.
Attention: Kramer and Hahn 1995 Two regions on the screen that do not touch are cued, and participants are supposed to determine which target appears in them. Distractors are flashed between them, in an effort to confuse the participants.
Attention: Navon 1977 This experiment asks participants to look for a particular large or small scale letter to identify which are more easily recognised.
Attention: Neisser 1964 This experiment compares times to find a "Z" in a column of round letters (O, S, Q) vs. a column of angular letters (K, E, L).
Attention: Pashler 1992 This study shows that there is a response selection bottleneck, but that visual attention is not affected by the bottleneck.
Attention: Posner and Mitchell 1967 This experiment uses subtractive analysis to determine how long it takes to make a decision about two letters, dependent on how complex a category discrimination is necessary.
Attention: Yantis 1993 Jonides and Yantis (1988) found that abrupt-onset singletons capture attention in visual search when onset is orthogonal to the target?s defining and reported attributes and that color and brightness singletons do not.
Child of Our Time The website contains information about the series, interactive games and experiments (My World Game), and a link to the related Open University website which provides academic support for the series
DASL : Data and Story Library This website provides datafiles and stories to illustrate the use of basic statistics methods
Development of Perceptual Causality, 1996-2000 This project concerns the tendency to perceive cause-and-effect in schematic events. Six datafile; 2 child studies, 2 infant studies and 2 adult studies.
Economic and Social Data Service - About ESDS Qualidata Online ESDS Qualidata supports the acquisition, dissemination and re-use of qualitative social science research data. ESDS Qualidata Online is the interactive face of that service, moving beyond catalogue searching and data download to allow web-based free-text and filtered searching, browsing and retrieval of research data in real time. Increasingly, data in the system includes not only traditional interview transcripts, but also audio and image files.
Economic and Social Data Service - Search and browse qualitative datasets ESDS Qualidata has catalogued a range of qualitative datasets. Many datasets are available directly from ESDS Qualidata in digital format while others are 'virtual' and available from our partner archives. ESDS Qualidata works with other archives in order to make qualitative datasets more widely available. In some cases, collections may have been acquired, processed and catalogued by ESDS Qualidata but are now made available through other archives (e.g. British Library Sound Archive). These datasets are referred to as 'virtual' datasets. Most often, these collections exist only in non-digital paper format (paper, analogue audio etc.).
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) The web site provides information about ESDS, links to finding and accessing data across the specialist services and other key social science data, information about ESDS news and training, and pages to support data creators and depositors.
Hayes and Hayes 1952 The performance of a 3 yr-old home-raised chimpanzee in a variety of imitation test situations is described and illustrated.
Hayes and Hayes 1954 Using their observations of the behavior of a chimpanzee raised in their home in a human environment the authors examine questions concerning the possible cultural capacity of chimpanzees and by inference proto-human primates.
Henry A. Murray Research Archive The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is a national repository for social and behavioral science data on human development and social change, especially data that illuminate women's lives and issues of concern to women
Human Factors: Hyman 1953 This study uses information theory to explain why larger numbers of choices increase reaction time (a phenomenon described by the Hick Hyman Law).
Human Factors: Klapp and Netick 1988 This experiment compared two tasks, one involving determining what digit was missing in a list, and one determining which digit followed a probe digit in the list.
Memory: Baddeley 1966 This experiment presents lists of words, then asks participants to recall those words in order. Whether the words are or are not acoustically similar is varied.
Memory: Bower 1972 This experiment tests memory through simple meorising or by constructing a scene.
Memory: Conrad 1964 This experiemnt presents a series of letters and asks participants to immediately recall them.
Memory: Conway and Engle 1996 This experiment takes a standard operation span test, where participants alternate between solving math problems and learning words then recall the words at the end, and modifies it to adjust for the difficulty of the operations.
Memory: Cooper and Shepard 1973 This experiment tests memory and orientation. Lengthy registration process requiring an Athens password. Up to 15 day delay before download possible.
Memory: Craik & Watkins 1973 This experiemnt tests unintentional memory and recal through use of a target letter.
Memory: Jacoby 1983 This experiment investigates how perceptual enhancement is similar to recognition memory.
Memory: Kirkpatrick 1894 Participants are given several lists to remember, with slightly different instructions.
Memory: Kosslyn 1976 This experiment provides support for the notion that images, once formed, are a distinct form of internal representation, processed differently from other forms of internal representation.
Memory: Paivio 1965 This experiment investigates whether concrete nouns are easier to remember than abstract nouns.
Memory: Peterson and Peterson 1959 Subjects are presented with a series of syllables and then a three-digit number and are asked to count backwards from the number then recall the syllables.
Memory: Roediger and McDermott 1995 This experiment investigated the ability of participants to create false memories of words that are related to words they have heard in a list.
MRC psycholinguistic database This second version of the MRC Psycholinguistic Database is being provided as a computer usable resource rather than as a service.
Online Psychology Laboratory OPL features interactive experiments, data collection, and data downloads illustrating new and classic psychological phenomena. Lecturers can register to collect data or simply run experiments.
Perception: The Poggendorff Illusion The Poggendorf Illusion is a misalignment effect produced by the interaction of diagonal line elements with horizontal and vertical edges.
Psycholinguistics: Just, Carpenter, and Wooley 1982 This experiment demonstrates the self-paced moving window paradigm, in which participants read by seeing one word at a time in the position it would normally have occupied in the passage.
Psycholinguistics: MacWhinney-Bates Task This experiment asks participants to decided which noun out of a noun, noun, verb combination is the one performing the action.
Psycholinguistics: Meyer and Schvaneveldt 1971 Participants were given two strings of letters, which could each be a word or a nonword. They were faster to say that both were words when the words were related to each other.
Psycholinguistics: Perfetti, Bell, and Delaney 1988 Participants were presented with a word, followed immediately by a mask. Of interest was whether the mask's similarity to the target would facilitate naming of the target.
Psycholinguistics: Rumelhart and McClelland 1982 This experiment investigates the phenomenon whereby letters in words are recognized more quickly and readily than letters in irrelevant contexts (in a nonpronounceable string of nonsense letters, for instance.
Psychophysiology: Poffenberger 1912 This experiment compares the reaction time to respond to stimuli with the same hand as the eye that saw the stimulus and the reaction time to respond to stimuli with the opposite hand.
Representation and Retrieval of Arithmetical Facts, 1996-1998 The dataset contains the results from testing the normal children, the children with Turner's Syndrome, the children with number fact developmental dyscalculia and the children with William's Syndrome on a range of psychological measures
Sensation and Perception: Helson and Bevan 1964 This experiment was concerned with finding out how good people were at estimating, for instance, the area taken up by type on a printed page.
Sensation and Perception: McCollough 1965 This experiment shows participants alternating blue fields with horizontal stripes and orange fields with vertical stripes.
Sensation and Perception: Schiffman 1982 This experiment demonstrates several visual illusions, including the Ponzo Illusion, the Mueller-Lyer Illusion, Mach Bands, and afterimages.
Shyness and Children's Vocabulary Scores, 2000 The dataset includes the scores on tests of vocabulary and mental arithmetic administered to 320 children, 80 aged 4-5 years and 240 aged 9-10 years.
Social Psychology: Hamilton, Katz, and Leirer 1980 Participants were given the same descriptions of a person, with instructions either to remember the descriptions, or to use them to construct an impression of someone.
Social Psychology: Luchins and Luchins 1950 In this experiment, participants are asked how to produce a certain amount of liquid given three different sizes of measuring apparatus (water jugs).
TQRMUL Dataset Teaching Resources This qualitative dataset consists of video and audio recordings, together with transcripts, of five interviews with undergraduate students on the subject of friendship.
