Chapter 1. Levels of Processing

1.1 Introduction

Understanding how reading works plays an important role in understanding how memory is processed and stored. In this experiment, you will examine different facets of reading a word. Reading a word has many features: processing the physical stimulus, hearing the word in your head, and processing the meaning of the word. These are separate acts, and you will be engaging in different tasks to measure how fast and accurately you process each of these aspects of reading a word.

1.2 Experiment Setup

1.3 Instructions

We will be examining your responses to words. You will need to press the space bar to begin the experiment. At the beginning of each trial, a fixation mark will appear. Please look at this mark. After it is removed, you will be presented with a question. The question will be about the word to follow and can be answered unambiguously with either a Yes or a No. When you have read the question, press the space bar, and the question will be removed and the word presented for a brief period. You are to answer Yes or No to the question using either the keys indicated below or the buttons on the screen.

Keyboard Responses

1.4 Experiment

1.5 Results

1.6 Quiz