Change Blindness

Lab Study Questions

1) What is the purpose of the study?

 To find out what can cause blindness in young adults.

 

2) What other research was presented that aligns with the study?

Given that such ‘‘change blindness’’ affects performance in real-world tasks such as driving 
improving the ability to detect changes could have practical benefits.

3) Who were the participants? Was it a representative sample? Is this a good population choice for this study?

40 young adults and 40 independent-living older adults. Yes it is because, there were an even amount in both groups and also they did not do just males or just females, they did both sexes.

4) What was the procedure?
Following a screening session, participants completed pre- training assessments on both transfer tasks, and were then randomly assigned to either the change detection training group or the active control group. They then completed 16 one-hour training sessions, followed by a post-training transfer session. Participants completed 2–3 sessions per week and finished the study in approximately 8–9 weeks.

5) What was the method of observation in this study? Survey? If so, were the questions purposeful. How did they code the behaviors if it was a naturalistic observation?
 To see how the change blindness works and if it works the same for everyone or if the change blindness changes for everyone. The questions were very purposeful and the tried to make it look the same for everyone.

6) What were the results of significant findings of this experiment?
maintain 75% accuracy- Encoding speed.
maintain 75% accuracy- Accuracy.

7) Conclusions of this study? Was there any observer bias? Was it an ethical experiment?
Although training on a change detection task improved performance, with participants requiring less encoding time for accurate change detection, that improvement did not transfer to a structurally similar one-shot change detection task or to a flicker change detection task. Both the training group and the control group improved when they completed the transfer tasks a second time, but they improved to equal extents. Change detection training did not improve change detection on other tasks, either in a similar one-shot change detection task with different stimuli or in a flicker change detection task with real-world images.

8) What is other possible research that can be conducted to improve this subject of research?
The lack of transfer from our object change detection task to another one-shot change detection task suggests that training effects were limited to the trained objects and did not enhance the underlying change detection processes or other mechanisms and strategies that would aid performance of the same task with different objects. That is, the improvements during training likely resulted from increased familiarity with the trained stimuli rather than from an improvement in underlying change detection ability.

Survey

1) What is the purpose of the study?

The purpose of this study is burnout. Burnout is the feeling of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that is caused by long-term involvement in situations that are emotionally damaging. To see if anyone has experience these sort of emotion and or feelings.

2) What other research was presented that aligns with the study?

Other studies that align with this study is the work-life balance and work environment. What kind of feelings and emotion can be expressed with either study. Both of the studies show how burnout in different environment can affect the result of burnout.

3) Who were the participants? Was it a representative sample? Is this a good population choice for this study?

Some of the participants in this study were psychiatrist in japan. There was 80 psychiatric departments that were sent the questionnaire. This was a good amount because you can clearly test the psychiatric departments separately and you could get different results from each.

4) What was the procedure?

They sent out questionnaires to 80 psychiatric departments. The people taking the test were informed that the information was being used for sociodemographics, and they don’t have to take the test.

5) What was the method of observation in this study? Survey? If so, were the questions purposeful. How did they code the behaviors if it was a naturalistic observation?

The method used were sending out the questionnaire to psch departments and asked to complete the survey as part of their research. The questions were purposeful because they wanted to see how many of the worker have experienced burnout.

6) What were the results of significant findings of this experiment?

Some of the workers have experienced burnout not only in the workplace but also at their place of living. The experiment showed that burnout can happen anywhere you are.

7) Conclusions of this study? Was there any observer bias? Was it an ethical experiment?

The study was not bias, it was a very ethical experience. That ran their test thoroughly and took careful results.

8) What is another possible research that can be conducted to improve this subject of research?

They could continue their research into the younger generations. To see if children experience burnout.

5 Stages of Grief

5 Stages

Kylie Edwards

Ruth Davis Konigsberg 

Denial-We Grieve in Stages: In 2007, found that most people have accepted the death of their loved ones from the very beginning. The people feel more yearning for their loved ones than anger or depression.

Anger-Express It; Don't Repress It: In a 2007, study of 66 people who had recently lost a spouse or child, who didn't express their emotions for six months after their loss was less depressing and anxious and had fewer health complaints at 14 and 25 months than those who did express their emotions.

Bargaining-Grief Is Harder on Women: In 2001, Someone studied the measure of who suffers more, men or women. The studies had to meet one of two conditions: widows and widowers who was compared with a control group of married men and women. They had to be evaluated before the loss of their spouse to establish a baseline of their mental health.

Depression-Grief Never Ends: 205 elderly people had a spouse die and the largest group was about 45% of the participants. They showed no signs of shock, despair, anxiety or intrusive thoughts six months after their loss. Some of the subjects were screened for classic symptoms of depression, such as lethargy, sleeplessness, joylessness and appetite problems, and came up clean. About 15% of the participants in Bonanno's study were still having some problems at 18 months. This small minority might be suffering from a syndrome clinicians call Prolonged Grief Disorder. Most people respond to loss with resilience, which is often mischaracterized as pathological or delayed grief.

Acceptance-Counseling Helps: With about a year of counseling after a loved one's death is mandated by federal legislation passed in 1982. The practice was likely popularized before there was enough solid research on normal grief to base it upon. And while counseling may have enriched a few of its practitioners, its propagation was driven more by ideology than money.