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Making Sense of Listening: The IMAP Test Battery
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2010
A test battery (IMAP) for performing an in-depth assessment of auditory and cognitive abilities contributing to listening skills is described. It is quick to administer, child-friendly and free from linguistic confounds. Stimulus generation and protocol management are controlled via a software platform (IHR-STAR) to ensure replicable procedures.
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Dichotic Listening
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University It is a well-known fact that the human ability to process incoming stimuli is limited. Nonetheless, the world is complicated, and there are always many things going on at once. Selective attention is the mechanism that allows humans and other animals to control which stimuli get processed and which become ignored. Think of a cocktail party: a person couldn’t possibly attend to all of the conversations taking place at once.
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Self-Presentation
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2025
Self-presentation is a fundamental aspect of social interaction, shaping both how others perceive individuals and how they view themselves. This dynamic process influences behaviors in various social settings, often leading people to adjust their appearance, speech, and demeanor to align with their desired identity. While self-presentation can be deliberate or unconscious, it plays a critical role in interpersonal relationships and self-perception.Forms of Self-PresentationSelf-presentation can...
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Self-Presentation: Self-Monitoring and Self-Handicapping
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2020
People can go to great lengths to protect their self-image and present themselves in ways that they want others to see them. Sociologist Erving Goffman presented the idea that a person is like an actor on a stage. Calling his theory dramaturgy, Goffman believed that we use “impression management” to present ourselves to others as we hope to be perceived. Each situation is a new scene, and individuals perform different roles depending on who is present (Goffman, 1959). Think about the way you...
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Strategies of Self-Presentation I: Strategic Self-Presentation
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2025
Strategic self-presentation refers to individuals' intentional efforts to influence how others perceive them. This process is employed in various social and professional settings, such as job interviews, dating, politics, and legal contexts, where individuals seek to shape impressions to gain social or material advantages. While people generally present themselves in ways that align with their authentic characteristics, external factors, such as cognitive load, can hinder their ability to...
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Researchers alter one presentation parameter at a time, such as word order, rate, repetition, or semantic relationship, to examine its contribution to performance. Keeping the remaining conditions standardized makes differences in recall, recognition, or reaction time easier to attribute to the manipulated factor. This controlled comparison is central to isolating how words are encoded and organized.
Word order and semantic relationship provide different ways to test organization during learning. Related words can be presented as a meaningful group, while alternative semantic relationships or arrangements provide comparison conditions; repetition changes exposure across trials. Comparing these arrangements helps determine whether later performance varies with the structure or amount of information encountered.
Recall, recognition, and reaction time provide different behavioral outcomes. Recall and recognition assess performance after exposure, whereas reaction time captures the speed of responding. Selecting among these measures lets investigators examine learning and memory from complementary perspectives and determine whether presentation conditions are associated with accuracy-related or speed-related differences.
A typical study begins by specifying the word sequence and the factor to manipulate, then presents the items visually or auditorily under controlled timing. After exposure, participants complete a behavioral assessment such as recall, recognition, or reaction-time testing. Researchers compare responses across the planned conditions to evaluate the effect of presentation design.
Word list presentation can be adapted to questions about learning, memory, attention, and language-related behavior. In memory experiments, researchers may focus on recall or recognition; in attention or language studies, reaction time can provide a performance outcome. The framework also supports investigations of priming and categorization by changing the relations among presented words.
Because every participant encounters a controlled stimulus sequence, the method supports comparisons between experimental conditions and among individual responses. Researchers can examine whether changes in order, rate, repetition, or semantic relationship coincide with different behavioral outcomes. This makes the approach useful for separating effects of presentation conditions from broader differences in cognitive performance.