Psych Lab 101

31 cognitive and clinical psychology experiments you can try yourself.

The perfect companion to any introductory psychology course, Psych Lab 101 contains 31 well-known cognitive and clinical psychology experiments you can try yourself. See how you compare to classic results - figure out how long it takes to mentally scan through groups of objects in the Sternberg scanning paradigm, see if words are recognized faster than letters in a word superiority task, try to spot subtle changes in the change blindness paradigm, and much more!

Also included are 11 visual illusions that can be adjusted in real-time, so you can see how size, speed, orientation, or other factors influence your perception.

Each experiment includes background information with references, history, and a description of methods. In addition, you can try several versions of each experiment to experience an effect with different stimuli, timing, or conditions.

Psych Lab 101 contains the following experiments.

Attention and Perception:

Change Blindness

Choice Reaction Time

Global Precedence

Flanker Compatibility Task

Mackworth Clock Test

Perceptual Matching

Simple Reaction Time

Spatial Cueing

Stop Signal Task

Temporal Integration

Useful Field of View

Vigilance

Visual Search

Visual Search (Shapes)

Learning and Memory:

Affective Priming

Dual N-Back

Match to Sample

N-Back

Pitch Memory

Semantic Priming (Numbers)

Stereotype Priming

Sternberg Scanning

Visual Patterns Test

Common Clinical Tests:

AX-CPT

Berg's Card Sorting Task

CPT-X

Go-NoGo Task

Iowa Gambling Task

IVA-CPT

Language:

Dual Lexical Decision

Word Superiority Effect

Attention and Perception:

Ambiguous Quartet

Flash-Lag Effect

Hering Illusion

Hermann Grid

Induced Grating

Nesting Squares

Ponzo Illusion

Scintillating Grid

Stepping Feet Illusion

Stereokinetic Effect

Translating Diamond