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2-3 closeups of face, one female whos brushing her hair, one male putting on a coat
What are Human Face Targets?
What was the age range for the child participants?
What are ages ranging from 4-7 years old?
The correct rejection rate for human faces by the adult participants.
What is .70 or 70%
What was the frist procedure in the study before everything?
What is,The parents for the children had to fill out a consent form as well as a demographic sheet?
What platform was used to present the lineup?
What is microsoft powerpoint?
Pool of 90 females + 90 males, different outfits, raters selected 4 of them, all photos were black and white
What are Human Face Foils?
How many adult participants were used in the study and what was the age range of the group?
What are 53 adult participants ages ranging from 17-30 years old?
What did the researchers use to assess familiarity with the target cartoons?
What is a response form?
What was the silhouetted box for?
What is: for when the target person/cartoon was not in the lineup?
"What did the cartoon character/person look like?"
What is the free recall question the researcher asked the participants after watching the video?
A short 2-3 second clip of videos taken from Go Diego Go and Dora the Explorer (all videos muted and in color)
What are Cartoon Targets?
Where did the researchers recruit the adult participants from?
What is: the Introductory Psychology Participant Pool from an Eastern Ontario University
How were the human targets described?
What is one female and one male Caucasian university student. Each 22 years old?
As “dress” has been found to influence children's decision making, possibly through social pressure, what kind of clothes did the researchers wear to lower these effects?
What is professional-casual clothing
How did they record the adults selections as opposed to the childrens selections.
What is: the adults had to record their selections themselves on a matching sheet. While the children just pointed to their choices and the experimenters recorded it for them.
Images taken from the internet based on similar appearance; 10 photos judged at a time all photos in black and white
What are Cartoon Foils?
Where did the researchers recruit the child participants from?
What are: pre-kindergarten/kindergarten classes from three private schools in Eastern Ontario, Canada
The overall correct rejection rate for cartoon faces among children.
What is 94% or .94
Describe one difference in procedure between the adults and the children.
Adults were given the demographics form to fill out themselves, the researchers filled out the children's form.
The adults could indicate on an answer sheet their choice of face/silhouette in the line-up. The children were told to point at the face/silhouette.
How was the study introduced to the students?
What is: as a group from the university doing a project on TV shows and computer games.
4 total pictures shown with 3 or 4 foils present in each category, participants were told to point at the character/person target
What is a Lineup or photo array?
How many child participants were used in the study?
What are 59 child participants
What did the response form provided ask the participants?
What is age, gender, primary language, ethnicity, number of children in the household and their ages, amount of time spent watching cartoons per week, how much time spent watching the two target cartoons?
"Do you remember anything else?"
What was this type of question called?
What is: A non-specific probing question.
What were the names of the groups the data was divided into?
What is: Target-present and Target-absent?