Talk:Mental chronometry

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The creation of this page is a group project of Dr. Kent Norman's Spring semester 2006 course, Thinking and Problem Solving, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

[edit] Comments

At the beginning, before the Contents you need a 1-2 sentence short definition of mental chronometry, such as the second sentence in the Defintion and history section. Then make this section just History. In stead of Major research findings, you may want to make it "Examples in research" or parallel to your last section "Application of mental chronometry in cognitive psychology". When you refer to a study, use the APA format "Posner (1978) ..." Finally, I think that you need to add a little more to the theory and methodology using time to assess a sequence of information processing components. And a little more in the history part. User: Klnorman

[edit] Final Comments 10 May 2006

Nicely written. Excellent length and detail for a good scholarly article in Wikipedia. Good formating etc. Group points = 48/50.

[edit] Useful Computer Programs that Test the Below?

Has anybody found any useful computer programs that test for the different reaction tests (Posner, et al.?). Or has anyone gone about creating such programs? What are possible (and, hopefully, thoroughly tested) theories that would concern how it is that performance on such tests relates to IQ, general problem solving ability and other studying or knowledge-retrieval/expert-system generating capabilities? For example, would it be likely that someone who performs exceptionally on such tests would also perform exceptionally when in comes to trivia quizzes or mathematical, scientific and practical problem solving?

Has anyone ever tested the effect of sleep deprivation, stress and other similar issues on the performance of such individuals on such tests? User: Hyperclocked