scholarly journals Online measures of looking and learning in infancy

Infancy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis S. Smith‐Flores ◽  
Jasmin Perez ◽  
Michelle H. Zhang ◽  
Lisa Feigenson
Keyword(s):  
Online Measures

Acceptance Mediates the Relationship Between Tinnitus-Related Cognitions and Anxiety Sensitivity

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Moring ◽  
Anne Bowen ◽  
Jenifer Thomas ◽  
Jeremy Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Distress ◽  
Anxiety Sensitivity ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Negative Cognitions ◽  
Acceptance And Action Questionnaire ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Online Measures

Purpose Negative cognitions related to tinnitus sensation have been previously shown to affect the level of emotional distress. Anxiety sensitivity is another psychological factor that influences individuals to more closely monitor their own bodily sensations, resulting in increased negative cognitions and negative emotional responses among tinnitus patients. However, increasing acceptance of tinnitus sensation may attenuate emotional distress. The goal of this research was to investigate the relationship between negative tinnitus-related cognitions, acceptance, and anxiety sensitivity. Method Two hundred sixty-seven participants completed online measures of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (Newman, Jacobson, & Spitzer, 1996), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (Hayes, Follette, & Linehan, 2004), and the Anxiety Sensitivity Index–3 (Taylor et al., 2007). Results Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that acceptance fully mediated the relationship between negative tinnitus-related cognitions and anxiety sensitivity. Conclusions On the basis of these results, it is suggested that practitioners improve acceptance of tinnitus sensation, duration, and intensity. More research is warranted on the clinical techniques to improve acceptance.

scholarly journals The interpretation of syntactically unconstrained anaphors in Turkish heritage speakers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek ◽  
Sol Lago ◽  
Duygu Fatma Şafak ◽  
Orhan Demir ◽  
Bilal Kırkıcı
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Reading Task ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Online Measures

Previous work has shown that heritage grammars are often simplified compared to their monolingual counterparts, especially in domains in which the societally-dominant language makes fewer distinctions than the heritage language. We investigated whether linguistic simplification extended to the anaphoric system of Turkish heritage speakers living in Germany. Whereas the Turkish monolingual grammar features a three-way distinction between reflexives (kendi), pronouns (o), and syntactically-unconstrained anaphors (kendisi), German only distinguishes between two categories, pronouns and reflexives. We examined whether heritage speakers simplified the Turkish anaphor system by assimilating the syntactically unconstrained anaphor kendisi to either of the two categories attested in the societally-dominant language, German. Speakers’ sensitivity to grammatical distinctions in comprehension was assessed using an offline antecedent selection task and an online self-paced reading task. Our results showed that heritage speakers retain the three-way anaphoric distinctions of the monolingual grammar but there were also differences between the results of the offline and the online tasks. We suggest that processing paradigms are a useful complement to judgment tasks when studying how heritage speakers use grammatical distinctions involving optionality, as online measures can reveal distinctions that are allowed, even if dispreferred by comprehenders.

scholarly journals Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts about Altmetrics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fenner
Keyword(s):  
The Impact ◽  
Online Measures ◽  
Blog Posts

Altmetrics ??? tools to assess the impact of scholarly works based on alternative online measures such as bookmarks, links, blog posts, etc. ???have become a regular topic in this blog. The altmetrics manifesto was published in October 2010, ...

scholarly journals Definitely Islands? Experimental investigation of definite islands

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Anissa Neal ◽  
Brian Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Reading Experiment ◽  
Online Measures ◽  
Acceptability Judgment

Experimental work on islands has used formal acceptability judgment studies to quantify the severity of different island violations. This current study uses this approach to probe the (in-)violability of definite islands, an understudied island, in offline and online measures. We conducted two acceptability judgment studies and find a modest island effect. However, rating distributions appear bimodal across definites and indefinites. We also conducted a self-paced reading experiment, but found no sig- nificant effects. Overall, offline, definite islands differ from other uniform islands, but online, the results are more complicated.

Examining attitudes to psilocybin: Should candidates for medical psilocybin be required to pass a contextual suitability test

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Molumby ◽  
Keith Gaynor ◽  
Suzanne Guerin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Linear Regressions ◽  
Medicinal Drug ◽  
Online Measures

Background: Due to increasing evidence of efficacy in treating mental health disorders, psilocybin may become a legal medicinal drug. This study tested the validity of Carhart-Harris & Nutt (2017) model of extra-pharmacological (EP) factors and examined whether such factors should be taken into account in any psychological suitability test for medicinally prescribed psilocybin. Method: 219 participants (101 self-identified females, 109 males, 7 non-binary people and 2 who preferred not to say), with an age range of 18 to 68, completed three online measures of ‘personality’; ‘set, setting and intention’, and the ‘Attitudes Towards Psilocybin’ (ATP) scale. The sample was equally divided between those who had used psychedelics (52.1%) and those who had no previous psychedelic use (47.5%). A series of stepwise linear regressions were run to examine of extra-pharmcological factor predictors of ATP. Results: The ATP scale was tested in terms of its reliability, construct validity, determinant validity and was deemed an appropriate measure. A model consisting of Set, Openness to Experience and Extraversion significantly predicted ATP scores. Conclusion: These findings supported the EP model and suggest that a suitability test may be a useful tool when determining whether a prescription of psilocybin is an appropriate course of treatment.

Online Measures of Basic Language Skills in Children with Early Focal Brain Lesions

2000 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian MacWhinney ◽  
Heidi Feldman ◽  
Kelley Sacco ◽  
Raul Valdés-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Brain Lesions ◽  
Basic Language ◽  
Online Measures

scholarly journals When relative clause extraposition is the right choice, it’s easier

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELAINE J. FRANCIS ◽  
LAURA A. MICHAELIS
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Sentential Context ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Conditional Preferences ◽  
The Right ◽  
Retrieval From Memory ◽  
Online Measures

abstractIn one type of Relative Clause Extraposition (RCE) in English, a subject-modifying relative clause occurs in a displaced position following the matrix VP, as in: Some options were considered that allow for more flexibility. Although RCE incurs a discontinuous dependency and is relatively infrequent in discourse, previous corpus and acceptability judgment studies have shown that speakers prefer RCE over adjacent ordering when the RC is long in relation to the VP, the subject NP is indefinite, and the main verb is passive/presentative (Francis, 2010; Francis & Michaelis, 2014; Walker, 2013). The current study is the first to relate these conditional preferences to online measures of production. For a spoken production task that required speakers to construct sentences based on visual cues, results showed that the same factors that modulate choice of structure – VP length, RC length, and definiteness of the subject NP – also modulate voice initiation time. That is, when the sentential context warrants a particular structure, that structure becomes easier to produce. Following the approach of MacDonald (2013), we explain these findings in terms of two production biases, one of which favors early placement of shorter, more accessible phrases and the other of which promotes rapid retrieval from memory of the most frequently used subtypes of a construction.

Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry J. Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
New Information ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Online Measures

The topic of how students become self-regulated as learners has attracted researchers for decades. Initial attempts to measure self-regulated learning (SRL) using questionnaires and interviews were successful in demonstrating significant predictions of students’ academic outcomes. The present article describes the second wave of research, which has involved the development of online measures of self-regulatory processes and motivational feelings or beliefs regarding learning in authentic contexts. These innovative methods include computer traces, think-aloud protocols, diaries of studying, direct observation, and microanalyses. Although still in the formative stage of development, these online measures are providing valuable new information regarding the causal impact of SRL processes as well as raising new questions for future study.

scholarly journals Methods for the detection of carelessly invalid responses in survey data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G Curran
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Self Report ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
The Past ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Online Measures

Self-report data collections, particularly through online measures, are ubiquitous in both experimental and non- experimental psychology. Invalid data can be present in such data collections for a number of reasons. One reason is careless or insufficient effort (C/IE) responding. The past decade has seen a rise in research on techniques to detect and remove these data before normal analysis (Huang, Curran, Keeney, Poposki, & DeShon, 2012; Johnson, 2005; Meade & Craig, 2012). The rigorous use of these techniques is valuable tool for the removal of error that can impact survey results (Huang, Liu, & Bowling, 2015). This research has encompassed a number of sub-fields of psychology, and this paper aims to integrate different perspectives into a review and assessment of current tech- niques, an introduction of new techniques, and a generation of recommendations for practical use. Concerns about C/IE responding are a factor any time self-report data are collected, and all such researchers should be well-versed on methods to detect this pattern of response.

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