Browsing Theses by Author "Schmidt, James R."
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Contingency Learning and Unlearning in the Blink of an Eye: A Resource Dependent Process
Schmidt, James R. (University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)Recent studies show that when words are correlated with the colours they are printed in (e.g., MOVE is presented 75% of the time in blue), colour identification is faster when the word is presented in its expected colour ... -
The Stroop Effect: Why Proportion Congruent has Nothing to do with Congruency and Everything to do with Contingency
Schmidt, James R. (University of Waterloo, 2007-07-17)Participants are slower to identify the print colour of incongruent colour words (e.g., the word ORANGE printed in green) than of congruent colour words (e.g., ORANGE printed in orange). The difference in time between these ...