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WWEP: How Experience Affects Adults’ Recognition of Words

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Faculty Sponsor: Barbara Juhasz Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: The English language is constantly changing as peoples’ experiences with words change. Familiarity (Fam) and age of acquisition (AoA) are two determinants of the lexical quality of words. Fam measures how often a word is experienced (Gernsbacher, 1984), and AoA measures when a word is … Read more

Remembering the Forest or the Trees: Effects of Psychological Distance on Memory Specificity

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Faculty Sponsor: Kyungmi Kim Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Psychological distance (i.e., the distance of a stimulus from a person’s direct experience) is suggested to alter the way people construe a stimulus, with a more detail-oriented, concrete construal for a psychologically proximal stimulus vs. a more global, abstract construal for a psychologically distal stimulus. … Read more