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Hello Everyone, My name is Christina and I’m from New York City but currently I reside in Connecticut. I have two sons and a pet turtle. My sons are ages 8 and 4 years old. This would be my second class from SNHU. I’m nervous but excited at the same time. I am particularly nervous because I started chemo a few months back. No matter how are hard things are I am grateful to be here. I really look forward to reading everyone's posts. The field of cognitive psychology makes use of a wide variety of procedures for doing research. I have decided to investigate two different approaches to research: the observational method and the experimental method. The methods of observation have either a naturalistic or controlled approach. In naturalistic observation, the participants are watched in their natural context, and they are expected to make a reaction response that is realistic. When conducting a controlled observation, the researcher is the one who decides where and when the observation will take place, as well as the number of participants and the method that will be utilized. In accordance with McLeod (2019), participants are assigned to each independent variable group in a random fashion. On the other hand, experimental procedures would consist of a separate treatment group and a control group. The section of the experiment in which there is no treatment is referred to as the control group. On the other hand, the treatment group is the one that receives the treatment that the researchers have decided upon. According to McLeod (2019), "in most cases, the control group is given a placebo, while the treatment group is given the actual treatment drug." Specifically, the experimental procedure that was developed by Neil Mulligan and Pietro Sparata was discussed in the paper that I selected. In 2015, Neil Mulligan and Pietro Spataro conducted two experiments in which they investigated the attention boost effect (ABE) at an early phase of memory encoding. This phase involves the perception and

processing of stimuli, as opposed to a later phase that involves controlled and elaborate rehearsal. They conducted the first experiment to determine whether or not increasing the amount of time spent studying (700 ms, 1500 ms, and 4,000 ms) has an effect on the ABE in recognition memory. In the second experiment, the attention condition, which is divided attention versus complete focus, is manipulated between subjects, and the trail type, which is either a target or a distractor, is manipulated within the individual. The duration of the research trial was reduced to 400 milliseconds, but the methods and procedures used in this experiment were the same as those used in the initial experiment (Mulligan & Spataro, 2015). Based on the findings of the second trial, it was determined that divided attention (DA) might potentially enhance memory performance. McLeod, S.A. (2007) Psychology Research Methods. Simply Psychology. Retrieved fromhttps://www.simplypsychology.org/research- methods.html Mulligan, N. W., & Spataro, P. (2015). Divided attention can enhance early-phase memory encoding: the attentional boost effect and study trial duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(4), 1223.

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