Theses and Dissertations

Date of Award

8-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Experimental Psychology

First Advisor

Dr. Yu-Cheng Lin

Second Advisor

Dr. Jerwen Jou

Third Advisor

Dr. Jason Popan

Abstract

When individuals are presented with two options and are asked to select the conceptually larger item, a size congruity effect is usually observed. A size congruity effect is present in comparison tasks when congruent stimuli, whose physical size and conceptual size match, are compared much faster than incongruent stimuli, whose physical size and conceptual size do not match. The current study used images and words as stimuli to investigate the two competing hypotheses for the size congruity effect using delta plots. Positive delta plots were observed when response time for incongruent items was compared to congruent items, providing evidence of a late competition effect between the conceptual and physical size dimensions. These results were not replicated when the response time for incongruent items was compared to neutral items, possibly showing that the competition effect might be modulated by the specific manipulation of the task.

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