Browsing School of Psychology by subject "1701 Psychology"
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A History of the Teaching of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney over the Fifty Year period 1959 to 2008
Published 2022-07-14A documentation of the structure and content of the Social Psychology courses, and the staff who taught them, in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney over the fifty year period 1959 to 2008. Changes to ...Report, Research -
How do task demands and aging affect lexical prediction during reading of natural texts?
Published 2023Facilitated identification of predictable words during online reading has been attributed to the generation of predictions about upcoming words. But highly predictable words are relatively infrequent in natural texts, ...Article -
Impact of Gambling Supply Reduction During COVID-19 Shutdowns on Gambling Problems and Gambling Behaviour in Australia: A National Longitudinal Study
Published 2021Restricting access to gambling products is one possible harm reduction strategy. We examined whether land-based gambling product supply restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted gambling problems and gambling ...Article -
Morphological preview effects in English are restricted to suffixed words
Published 2021Much of the evidence for morphological decomposition accounts of complex word identification has relied on the masked-priming paradigm. However, morphologically complex words are typically encountered in sentence contexts ...Preprint -
A Neural Implementation of MINERVA 2
Published 2022The MINERVA 2 (Hintzman, 1984) model of human memory has been used to simulate a variety of cognitive phenomena. These simulations, however, describe cognitive phenomena at Marr’s (1982) representation/algorithm level, ...Conference paper -
Predictability effects and parafoveal processing in older readers
Published 2021-10-27Normative aging is accompanied by visual and cognitive changes that impact the systems that are critical for fluent reading. The patterns of eye movements during reading displayed by older adults have been characterized ...Article -
To comply or not comply? A latent profile analysis of behaviours and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2021How and why do people comply with protective behaviours during COVID-19? The emerging literature employs a variable-centered approach, typically using a narrow selection of constructs within a study. This study is the first ...Article -
Wrapping up Sentence Comprehension: The Role of Task Demands and Individual Differences
Published 2020-01-01This study used wrap-up effects on eye movements to assess the relationship between online reading behavior and comprehension. Participants, assessed on measures of reading, vocabulary, and spelling, read short passages ...Preprint