COGNITION CLASS - PSY 435/550

Department of Psychology - University of Oregon, Spring 1998

APPLICATIONS OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

ABSTRACT LIST

EFFECTS OF WARNING LABELS and BRAND NAMES:

• Forbidden fruit vs. tainted fruit: Effects of warning labels on attraction to television violence, by Ruth Wren
• Influence of warning label words on perceived hazard level, by Jessica Padden
• Influence of warning label words on perceived hazard level, by Alison Nisbett
• Substance use and memory for health warning labels, by Dave Boyer
• The effects of brand name on advertising recall, by Anna Birkholz

EFFECT OF SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES:

• Effectiveness of subliminal messages in television commercials, by Rie Miyahara

COGNITIVE AND MOTOR FUNCTIONS IN THE ELDERLY:

• Recollective experience, normal aging, and frontal dysfunction, by Mayumi Hamada
• The influence of flooring on standing balance among older persons, by Cathy Lasse
• Longitudinal cognitive, electroencephalographic and morphological brain changes in ageing and Alzheimer's disease, by Frances Steimont

MEMORY AND EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY:

• Eyewitness identification accuracy, confidence, and decision times in simultaneous and sequential lineups, by Christina Lincoln
• Increases in eyewitness confidence resulting from postevent questioning, by Matt Beaver
• Increases in eyewitness confidence resulting from postevent questioning, by Brian Kallus
• Reaction time and assessments of cognitive efforts as predictors of eyewitness memory accuracy and confidence, by Cybill August
• Eyewitness memory, by Angela Hansen

RECOVERED MEMORY:

• Scientific status of recovered memories , by Lia Rowland

SLEEP AND LEARNING:

• Posttraining paradoxical sleep in rats is increaed after spatial learning in the Morria water maze, by Seiichi Ishii

VIGILANCE, STRESS, AND AGING IN THE WORKPLACE:

• Effects of instruction type and boredom proneness in vigilance: Implications for boredom and workload, by Jacqueline Cherry
• Habituation and dishabituation to speech and office noise, by Micah Sunshower Klatt
• Perceptual differences in young and old employees, by Chad Tabler

DRIVING:

• Verbal response times to directional traffic signs embedded in photographic street scenes, by Karen Patterson

AVIATION:

• Applications of cognitive psychology in modern avionics instrumentation, by Michael Crisp
• Comparison of methods for promoting geographic knowledge in simulated aircraft navigation, by Douglas Renner

SCHOOL AND EDUCATION:

• Applying cognitive development to the acquisition of literacy, by Vincent Marrella
• The role of recess in children's cognitive performance, by Danna Brownell
• Mnemopoly, by Cristine Middleton
• Developmental sex differences in verbal learning, by Derek W. Winters