A Lab Report from a Cognitive Approach 2022

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A Lab Report from a Cognitive Approach
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Abstract
The study explores the “Lexical Decision Task” (LDT), and “Animal Decision Task”
(ADT), which are assessed whether they may alter how emotion is processed with various
stimuli under three situations (negative, positive, or neutral). Importantly, the three groups were
based on two psycholinguistics features; that is, log frequency and word length. The results of
the LDT suggest that asking participants to examine a word’s negativity, or positivity should
influence the same outcome. As a result, the negative and positive word ratings should link with
each other leading to the small margin (t< 1). In the ADT, the word must be categorized
according to some semantic norm; whether it is a name of an animal. The results obtained show
that there was a significant margin between neutral and negative words, and negative and
positive words. To observe the connection between animal and non-animal words in each
situation, the information was assessed based on the response time for both animal and non-
animal words distinctly.

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A Lab Report from a Cognitive Approach
1.1 Introduction
Cognitive psychology is a scientific research of the mind as a data processor. Normally, it
creates cognitive models of data processing, which take place inside a person’s mind such as
language, memory, consciousness, attention, and perception. Majority of the lexical decision
assessments examine the response of participants by pressing a button of single words put in
segregation. Due to the fact, the LD undertaking depends on participant’s reaction time to correct
word trials. Contrary, the AD task is an example of a semantic categorization task, where
decisions must be based on instigation at a semantic level. In spite of multiple studies focusing
on how resemblance influences retorts to animal words, very little is understood on how linked
items in a respondent’s memory affect memorial decisions on non-animal words.
1.2 Purpose Statement
The purpose of this article is to assess the over-all effect various forms of errands have on the
handling of positive, negative, and neutral data. As a result, the “lexical decision task” and an
“animal categorization task” have been utilized to alter the type of processing individuals utilize,
and how they may change emotion being processed with several forms of stimuli under distinct
conditions.
1.3 Research Questions
1. Is the lexical decision approach effective in changing the type of processing humans use?
2. Is the animal decision perspective appropriate in changing the way emotions get processed
with various forms of stimuli under dissimilar conditions?

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3. Using the lexical decision technique, why is there a significant variance between neutral and
positive words, and no margin between unrelated and related words?
4. Using the animal decision approach, why is there a significant margin between neutral fear-
related words, and no such variance in happy and neutral words?
Summary of the Scatterplot
The scatterplot has been used to analyze the connection between two distinct quantitative
variables for the same persons. Normally, the values of one variable appear on a horizontal axis,
while the values of the other variable are placed on a vertical axis. Notably, each individual in
the data is represented by a point on the graph. Thus, the scatterplot evaluates data depending on
its distribution and size, as indicated in Figure 2. Alternatively, the strongest linear connection
happens when one variable elevates by the same amount of the other variable. Alternatively, the
link between two variables is strong when the value of r is greater than 0.7, and is lowest the
value of r is less than 0.3 (Mindrila, and Balentyne, 2017). According to linear lines on the
lexical decision data, the participants were highly anxious in both SSTAI data compared to their
happiness level in both the OHQ data. In the animal decision data, the linear lines indicated that
for Neu-Neg vs. Anxiety” the relationships between the variables was strong compared to that of
“Neu-Pos vs. Anxiety.” As a result, the linear line rose and fell respectively. Contrary, in the
OHQ data of the animal decision approach, there was a strong relationship between “Neu-Pos vs.
happiness” compared to “Neu-Neg vs. Happiness.”
Discussion
Throughout the paper, it is evident that both the lexical and animal decision experiments
have a significant impact changing to the form of processing individuals utilize, and the way it