J 2014

Experimental Evaluation of Tachistoscopic Measurement: A Step Beyond Wundt's Criticism

VOBOŘIL, Dalibor, Martin JELÍNEK and Petr KVĚTON

Basic information

Original name

Experimental Evaluation of Tachistoscopic Measurement: A Step Beyond Wundt's Criticism

Authors

Edition

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, CHAMPAIGN, UNIV ILLINOIS PRESS, 2014, 0002-9556

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.619

DOI

UT WoS

000336349600009

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 5/3/2020 09:30, Dana Nesnídalová

Abstract

V originále

This study was designed to assess the possible systematic bias in measurements obtained using tachistoscopic devices from different historical periods of psychological research. Four different tachistoscopic devices were used for brief presentations of stimuli in a letter recognition task. The research sample consisted of 24 participants (12 female, 12 male) in a within-subject experimental design with complete counterbalancing of 4 conditions defined by 4 instrument types: fall tachistoscope, tachistoscope with camera-like shutter, and computer-based tachistoscopes with cathode ray tube and liquid crystal diode display screens. The effects of experimental conditions were examined using a linear mixed model analysis. Our experiment demonstrated that even in standardized settings the type of tachistoscope used for stimulus presentation systematically influenced the participants' performance. We found that the lowest number of correctly recalled stimuli, as well as the highest number of erroneously recalled stimuli, was produced in the camera-like tachistoscope condition. Together, these findings suggest that when results from studies involving tachistoscopic experiments are reviewed, the unique characteristics of each particular instrument used must be considered carefully.