As Cognitive Experimental Psychologist’s we have for the past decades thrived on key principals t... more As Cognitive Experimental Psychologist’s we have for the past decades thrived on key principals that made our experimental work the forefront of research. For example, our recent work on monolingual and bilingual Russians provided valuable and complimentary evidence on cognitive processes involved in acquisition and development of language in different writing systems.
The paper presents the first experimental data on visual word recognition in the atypically trans... more The paper presents the first experimental data on visual word recognition in the atypically transparent Turkish orthography using the single word naming paradigm. In the first experiment high frequency words were found to be named significantly faster than low frequecny words that were ...
The present study aims to compare whether final year psychology students (n= 26) could answer mor... more The present study aims to compare whether final year psychology students (n= 26) could answer more items on a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) correctly on abnormal psychology than prospective psychology candidates (n= 77) and final year engineering students (n= 26). The three groups of students completed MCQs in five different fields of abnormal psychology namely; eating disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and depression, sexual disorders, and personality and compulsive disorders, respectively. ...
There is a strong body of research indicating word frequency in naming English (eg Humphreys &... more There is a strong body of research indicating word frequency in naming English (eg Humphreys & Evett, 1985) and scripts other than English when all items to be named are known words (see Baluch & Besner 1991); thus suggesting that the lexical route is the dominant and ...
Research Anthology on Bilingual and Multilingual Education, 2022
Identifying and exploring factors that influence bilingual language processing has been the topic... more Identifying and exploring factors that influence bilingual language processing has been the topic of much psycholinguistic research. Semantic priming is typically used to examine semantic processing and refers to the phenomenon in which semantically related items (doctor-nurse) are processed faster and more accurately than semantically unrelated items (doctor-butter). The aim of the chapter is to address two key questions: 1) how the two languages of a bilingual are organised or stored and 2) how the two languages are processed. A review of the literature shows that there are currently no theoretical frameworks that explain Russian monolingual or Russian (L1)-English (L2) bilingual storage or processing. Monolingual Russian speakers and bilingual Russian (L1)-English (L2) speaking university students were asked to name target words under related or unrelated conditions. The results show that the magnitude of the semantic priming effect was determined by L2 proficiency. The implicati...
The present study examined whether popping air capsules affects students' state anxiety. One ... more The present study examined whether popping air capsules affects students' state anxiety. One group of university students were asked to pop air capsules for 5 min. (experimental group); another group did nothing (the control group). Both groups were tested on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Analyses showed that there was a difference in mean State Anxiety scores between the two groups, with the control group having a lower mean than the experimental group, which was contrary to our expectation. The findings are discussed in relation to an earlier published study of the effects of popping air capsules on changing a person's mood.
50 women and 50 men in a town in the East of England were asked how they would have liked to have... more 50 women and 50 men in a town in the East of England were asked how they would have liked to have been remembered had they attended the university Women of both mature (37 to 41 years) and young ages (18 to 21 years) were more concerned about being remembered as popular than brilliant. A negligible number wished to be remembered as an athletic star. Men in young and mature groups were divided on the issues of brilliance, popularity, and athletic stars. The only statistically significant analysis concerned the differences between young men and women on the issues of brilliance and popularity. The results are discussed in relation to previous work on differences in attitudes amongst men and women in academic and nonacademic settings.
According to the dual-route model of reading (Coltheart, 1978) irregular English words could only... more According to the dual-route model of reading (Coltheart, 1978) irregular English words could only be read by directly addressing linguistic information in the mental lexicon (referred to as the lexical route), whilst regular words could be read lexically or via a spelling sound conversion route (referred to as the non-lexical route). The universality of this dual route model developed on the peculiarities of English spelling has been tested amongst other writing systems differing in degree of spelling to sound transparency (e.g. Frost, Katz & Bentin, 1987). The consensus being that as far as skilled reading is concerned, all words, particularly high frequency words, in all languages are read via the lexical route whilst the non-lexical route is involved for reading nonwords or low frequency words (Baluch & Besner, 1991). The question, however, is whether this spelling transparency also has an effect on shortterm memory performance, particularly in view of the role that short-term me...
As Cognitive Experimental Psychologist’s we have for the past decades thrived on key principals t... more As Cognitive Experimental Psychologist’s we have for the past decades thrived on key principals that made our experimental work the forefront of research. For example, our recent work on monolingual and bilingual Russians provided valuable and complimentary evidence on cognitive processes involved in acquisition and development of language in different writing systems.
The paper presents the first experimental data on visual word recognition in the atypically trans... more The paper presents the first experimental data on visual word recognition in the atypically transparent Turkish orthography using the single word naming paradigm. In the first experiment high frequency words were found to be named significantly faster than low frequecny words that were ...
The present study aims to compare whether final year psychology students (n= 26) could answer mor... more The present study aims to compare whether final year psychology students (n= 26) could answer more items on a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) correctly on abnormal psychology than prospective psychology candidates (n= 77) and final year engineering students (n= 26). The three groups of students completed MCQs in five different fields of abnormal psychology namely; eating disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and depression, sexual disorders, and personality and compulsive disorders, respectively. ...
There is a strong body of research indicating word frequency in naming English (eg Humphreys &... more There is a strong body of research indicating word frequency in naming English (eg Humphreys & Evett, 1985) and scripts other than English when all items to be named are known words (see Baluch & Besner 1991); thus suggesting that the lexical route is the dominant and ...
Research Anthology on Bilingual and Multilingual Education, 2022
Identifying and exploring factors that influence bilingual language processing has been the topic... more Identifying and exploring factors that influence bilingual language processing has been the topic of much psycholinguistic research. Semantic priming is typically used to examine semantic processing and refers to the phenomenon in which semantically related items (doctor-nurse) are processed faster and more accurately than semantically unrelated items (doctor-butter). The aim of the chapter is to address two key questions: 1) how the two languages of a bilingual are organised or stored and 2) how the two languages are processed. A review of the literature shows that there are currently no theoretical frameworks that explain Russian monolingual or Russian (L1)-English (L2) bilingual storage or processing. Monolingual Russian speakers and bilingual Russian (L1)-English (L2) speaking university students were asked to name target words under related or unrelated conditions. The results show that the magnitude of the semantic priming effect was determined by L2 proficiency. The implicati...
The present study examined whether popping air capsules affects students' state anxiety. One ... more The present study examined whether popping air capsules affects students' state anxiety. One group of university students were asked to pop air capsules for 5 min. (experimental group); another group did nothing (the control group). Both groups were tested on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Analyses showed that there was a difference in mean State Anxiety scores between the two groups, with the control group having a lower mean than the experimental group, which was contrary to our expectation. The findings are discussed in relation to an earlier published study of the effects of popping air capsules on changing a person's mood.
50 women and 50 men in a town in the East of England were asked how they would have liked to have... more 50 women and 50 men in a town in the East of England were asked how they would have liked to have been remembered had they attended the university Women of both mature (37 to 41 years) and young ages (18 to 21 years) were more concerned about being remembered as popular than brilliant. A negligible number wished to be remembered as an athletic star. Men in young and mature groups were divided on the issues of brilliance, popularity, and athletic stars. The only statistically significant analysis concerned the differences between young men and women on the issues of brilliance and popularity. The results are discussed in relation to previous work on differences in attitudes amongst men and women in academic and nonacademic settings.
According to the dual-route model of reading (Coltheart, 1978) irregular English words could only... more According to the dual-route model of reading (Coltheart, 1978) irregular English words could only be read by directly addressing linguistic information in the mental lexicon (referred to as the lexical route), whilst regular words could be read lexically or via a spelling sound conversion route (referred to as the non-lexical route). The universality of this dual route model developed on the peculiarities of English spelling has been tested amongst other writing systems differing in degree of spelling to sound transparency (e.g. Frost, Katz & Bentin, 1987). The consensus being that as far as skilled reading is concerned, all words, particularly high frequency words, in all languages are read via the lexical route whilst the non-lexical route is involved for reading nonwords or low frequency words (Baluch & Besner, 1991). The question, however, is whether this spelling transparency also has an effect on shortterm memory performance, particularly in view of the role that short-term me...
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