Applied Cognitive Psychology seeks to publish the best papers dealing with psychological analyses of memory, learning, thinking, problem solving, language, and consciousness as they occur in the real world. Applied Cognitive Psychology will publish papers on a wide variety of issues and from diverse theoretical perspectives. The journal focuses on studies of human performance and basic cognitive skills in everyday environments including, but not restricted to, studies of eyewitness memory, autobiographical memory, spatial cognition, skill training, expertise and skilled behaviour. Articles will normally combine realistic investigations of real world events with appropriate theoretical analyses and proper appraisal of practical implications.

Applied Cognitive Psychology aims to publish high-quality papers that analyze psychological aspects of memory, learning, thinking, problem-solving, language, and consciousness as they manifest in the real world. The journal covers a wide range of issues from diverse theoretical perspectives. It focuses on studies of human performance and basic cognitive skills in everyday environments, including but not limited to eyewitness memory, autobiographical memory, spatial cognition, skill training, expertise, and skilled behavior. Articles typically combine realistic investigations of real-world events with appropriate theoretical analyses and a proper assessment of practical implications.

《Applied Cognitive Psychology》期刊致力于发表关于记忆、学习、思维、问题解决、语言和意识等心理分析的优秀论文，这些分析均发生在现实世界中。该期刊将涵盖多种问题，并从不同的理论视角出发。期刊重点关注人类在日常环境中的表现和基本认知技能的研究，包括但不限于目击者记忆、自传记忆、空间认知、技能训练、专业知识和熟练行为的研究。文章通常将现实事件的调查与适当的理论分析和对实际影响的合理评估相结合。

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Abstract One hundred and eighty‐one students answered a standardized questionnaire on Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): 25 reported trauma(s) and indicated a pattern of after‐effects that matched a PTSD symptom profile, whereas 88 indicated trauma(s) but no PTSD symptom profile. Both groups answered a questionnaire addressing the recollective quality, integration and coherence of the traumatic memory that currently affected them most. Participants with a PTSD symptom profile reported more vivid recollection of emotion and sensory impressions. They reported more observer perspective in the memory (seeing themselves ‘from the outside’), but no more fragmentation. They also agreed more with the statement that the trauma had become part of their identity, and perceived more thematic connections between the trauma and current events in their lives. The two groups showed different patterns of correlations which indicated different coping styles. Overall, the findings suggest that traumas form dysfunctional reference points for the organization of other personal memories in people with PTSD symptoms, leading to fluctuations between vivid intrusions and avoidance. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Dorthe Berntsen

Morten Willert

David C. Rubin

Splintered memories or vivid landmarks? Qualities and organization of traumatic memories with and without PTSD

破碎的记忆还是鲜明的印记？创伤记忆的质量与组织：有与无PTSD的比较

Summary This study was the first to test both the independent and additive effects of change‐detection prompts and warnings about potential discrepancies between an event and post‐event information on susceptibility to misinformation. Participants ( N = 239) viewed a mock crime video, read a post‐event narrative containing misinformation, and completed a memory test about the video content. Participants were randomly assigned to change‐detection and warning conditions. Ecological validity was enhanced by describing the materials as a police training exercise and by examining effects of one versus four misinformation items (opposed to typically higher rates in experimental research). Using a novel statistical approach for this topic (GLMM), we compared across the misinformation quantities participants received. Change‐detection prompts, but not a pre‐warning, decreased misinformation rates, and the effect of change‐detection was not enhanced by a pre‐warning. Results held regardless of misinformation quantity. These findings emphasize the utility of change‐detection mechanisms for increasing misinformation resistance.

Natasha A. Bailey

Alma P. Olaguez

Jessica Zoe Klemfuss

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Tactics for increasing resistance to misinformation

提高对错误信息抵抗力的策略

Abstract This study addressed questions about improvement in mental rotation skills: (1) whether growth trajectories differ for men and women with higher or lower spatial experience, (2) whether videogame training has effects on performance and leads to transfer, (3) whether effects of repeated testing or training effects are durable and (4) whether transfer is durable. Undergraduates participated in repeated testing on the MRT or played the videogame Tetris. Analyses showed large improvements in mental rotation with both repeated testing and training; these gains were maintained several months later. MRT scores of men and women did not converge, but men showed faster initial growth and women showed more improvement later. Videogame training showed greater initial growth than repeated testing alone, but final performance did not differ. Effects of videogame training transferred to other spatial tasks exceeding the effects of repeated testing, and this transfer advantage was still evident after several months. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Melissa S. Terlecki

Nora S. Newcombe

Michelle Little

Appl. Cognit. Psychol.

Durable and generalized effects of spatial experience on mental rotation: gender differences in growth patterns

空间经验对心理旋转的持久和普遍影响：成长模式中的性别差异

Abstract In Experiment 1, participants completed one of two versions of a computerized pointing direction task that used the same stimuli but different spatial transformation instructions. In the perspective‐taking version, participants were to imagine standing at one location facing a second location and then to imagine pointing to a third location. In the array‐rotation version, participants saw a vector pointing to one location, were to imagine the second vector with the same base as the first pointing to a second location, to mentally rotate the two vectors, and finally to indicate the direction of the imagined vector after the rotation. In Experiment 2, participants completed the perspective‐taking, mental rotation, and four large‐scale navigational tasks. The results showed that the perspective‐taking task required unique spatial transformation ability from the array rotation task, and the perspective‐taking task predicted unique variance over the mental rotation task in navigational tasks that required updating self‐to‐object representations. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Maria Kozhevnikov

Michael A. Motes

Bjoern Rasch

Olessia Blajenkova

Perspective‐taking vs. mental rotation transformations and how they predict spatial navigation performance

视角转换与心理旋转转换及其对空间导航表现的影响

Open math problem solving is critical to help students deepen the understanding and promote transfer of mathematics knowledge. However, the cognitive mechanism for open math problem solving, particularly the role of spatial abilities, has not been paid enough attention. This study recruited 192 junior middle school students (14.30 ± 0.48 years old). Results showed that both spatial visualisation (measured by paper folding) and spatial working memory (measured by spatial 2‐back) significantly associated with open math problem solving with controlled variables including age, sex, nonverbal matrix reasoning, and arithmetic principles. Moreover, spatial working memory was more associated with easy open math problem solving, while spatial visualisation more associated with difficult open math problem solving. These findings suggested that as the difficulty of open math problems increased, the construction of problem space mattered more than retaining and updating problem space in open math problem solving.

Li Wang

Chen Cao

Xinlin Zhou

Chunxia Qi

Spatial abilities associated with open math problem solving

开放数学问题解决中的空间能力关联

ABSTRACT This study examined young adults' ratings of the credibility and honesty/coherence of youths with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to typically developing (TD) youths. The youths (six with ASD and six TD; 12–18 years old, males) recalled participating in the TRIER Social Stress Test. Video clips of their free recall were shown to undergraduate students ( N = 304) who rated the youths on a 10‐item questionnaire. Factor analysis revealed two factors: credibility and honesty/coherence. Analyses showed that ASD youths were rated as less credible and less honest/coherent than TD youths. In addition, older age and more correct memory predicted greater credibility, and older age predicted greater perceived honesty/coherence. There were no significant interactions with diagnosis. This is the first study to examine adults' ratings of ASD youths who are recalling a stressful event.

Rayna Enriquez

Jonni L. Johnson

Yan Wang

Peter Mundy

Gail S. Goodman

Adults' Ratings of Youths With Autism Spectrum Disorder When Recalling a Stressful Event

成年人对自闭症谱系障碍青少年回忆压力事件时的评价

ABSTRACT Loftus and Pickrell's (1995) famous ‘Lost in the Mall’ false memory implantation experiment was recently replicated in Ireland. In this new study standard investigator judgements indicated many more false memories than did participants themselves, consistent with similar studies. We reanalysed the transcripts with investigator‐judged false memories, focusing on recall of six suggested core details. On average, fewer than two details in the fake event were explicitly recalled; 20% with full and 58% with partial false memories did not recall being lost. Participants' own self‐reported recall was associated with remembering more details. Half the participants described potentially true experiences, distinguishable from the fake event; this group recalled more suggested details but tended to remember them differently. The data suggested investigator ratings reflect individual comments made when participants are considering whether they remember different elements of the fake event but may not capture the way these comments are integrated in participants' own recall decisions.

Bernice Andrews

Chris R. Brewin

Lost in the Mall? Interrogating Judgements of False Memory

“在商场迷路了？审视虚假记忆的判断”

ABSTRACT Identification accuracy can be predicted from eyewitnesses' self‐reported decision processes but the evidence of their ability to improve prediction when confidence and response time are included is mixed and minimal. Typically, decision processes are measured via one or five self‐report questions; we explored whether a more nuanced questionnaire could improve prediction. Participants viewed a mock‐crime video, made a target‐present or ‐absent lineup decision, and completed 17 decision process items. An exploratory factor analysis on choosers' ( n = 391) responses revealed three correlated factors, broadly reflecting automatic response, relative judgment, and absolute judgment. The three‐factor solution had good internal reliability (McDonald's ωs = 0.93, 0.89, and 0.74, respectively). Scores produced from the questions loading on the automatic response and relative judgment factors improved predictions of accuracy compared to using confidence and response time alone. Self‐reported decision processes may be an easy‐to‐administer and useful reflector of identification accuracy.

Jamal K. Mansour

Jennifer L. Beaudry

Mai‐Tram Nguyen

Roy Groncki

Eyewitness Decision Processes: A Valid Reflector Variable

目击者决策过程：一个有效的反映变量

ABSTRACT Victims and witnesses are regularly intoxicated with alcohol during crimes and jurors must evaluate their testimony when making decisions. The current study employed a 2 (crime role: victim, witness) × 4 (victim/witness intoxication status: sober, low, moderate, severe) between‐subjects design. Juror characteristics (e.g., alcohol expectancies, personal alcohol consumption, alcohol‐related work experience, demographic factors) were also explored as predictors of mock jury decision‐making. Participants ( N = 181) read a trial transcript and completed a survey assessing trial‐related judgements, demographics, and expectations about and experiences with alcohol. Lower victim/witness intoxication was associated with higher credibility ratings, lower cognitive impairment ratings, and more convictions. Crime role did not impact dependent variables and juror characteristics had a limited influence: only alcohol‐related work experience and the perceived gender of the victim/witness predicted a minority of decision types. The current study asserts the need for evidence‐based jury education about alcohol and eyewitness memory with a focus on delivery via familiar metrics.

Erica Martin

Celine van Golde

Lauren A. Monds

Tipsy Testimonies: The Effect of Alcohol Intoxication Status, Crime Role and Juror Characteristics on Mock Jury Decision‐Making

醉酒证词：酒精中毒状态、犯罪角色和陪审员特征对模拟陪审团决策的影响

ABSTRACT Forensic facial professionals have been shown in previous studies to identify people from frontal face images more accurately than untrained participants when given 30 s per face pair. We tested whether this superiority holds in more challenging conditions. Two groups of forensic facial professionals (examiners, reviewers) and untrained participants were tested in three lab‐based tasks: other‐race face identification, disguised face identification, and face memory. For other‐race face identification, on same‐race faces, examiners were superior to controls; on different‐race identification, examiners and controls performed comparably. Examiners were superior to controls for impersonation disguise, but not consistently superior for evasion disguise. Examiners' performance on the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT+) was marginally better than reviewers and controls. We conclude that under laboratory‐style conditions, professional examiners' identification superiority does not generalize completely to other‐race and disguised faces. Future work should administer other‐race and disguise face identification tests that allow forensic professionals to follow methods and procedures they typically use in casework.

Amy N. Yates

Jacqueline G. Cavazos

Géraldine Jeckeln

Ying Hu

Eilidh Noyes

Carina A. Hahn

Alice J. O'Toole

P. Jonathon Phillips

Perceptual Expertise of Forensic Examiners and Reviewers on Tests of Cross‐Race and Disguised Face Identification and Face Memory

法庭鉴定人员和审查人员在跨种族和伪装人脸识别及人脸记忆测试中的感知专长

Abbreviation	Appl. Cogn. Psychol.
Journal Impact	1.94
Quartiles(Global)	PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL(Q2)

ISSN	0888-4080, 1099-0720
h-index	119

Publication Information	Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1987，Proportion of original research papers: 97.35%，Self Citation Rate:9.50%， Gold OA Rate: 45.03%

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