PubMed Health⌕ Search
Home/Archive/PubMed

PubMed · 9829102

How memory research can benefit from CASM.

D B Wright·E F Loftus
View original source ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Research on cognitive aspects of survey methodology (CASM) has helped survey researchers to understand the processes involved in responding to survey questions. The survey situation, and the methods employed by CASM researchers, can also be used to benefit cognitive psychology. In particular, the size and coverage of sample surveys, and the techniques used to examine how respondents understand survey questions, could be of much value for exploring some aspects of memory research. We give some examples where this is being done and urge others to follow suit.

Explore related subjects

Cognitive ScienceData CollectionHumansMemoryResearchJournal Article

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

D B Wright, E F Loftus. 1998. How memory research can benefit from CASM.. https://doi.org/10.1080/741942607

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related citations

PubMed2006

Cognitive neuroscience and the law.

Advances in cognitive neuroscience now allow us to use physiological techniques to measure and assess mental states under a growing set of circumstances. The implication of this growing ability has not been lost on the western legal community. If biologists can accurately measure mental state, then legal conflicts that turn on the true mental states of individuals might well be resolvable with techniques ranging from electroencephalography to functional magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore, legal practitioners have increasingly sought to employ cognitive neuroscientific methods and data as evidence to influence legal proceedings. This poses a risk, because these scientific methodologies have largely been designed and validated for experimental use only. Their subsequent use in legal proceedings is an application for which they were not intended, and for which those methods are inadequately tested. We propose that neurobiologists, who might inadvertently contribute to this situation, should be aware of how their papers will be read by the legal community and should play a more active role in educating and engaging with that community.

Cognitive Science↗
PubMed2006

Cultural variability in the effects of question design features on respondent comprehension of health surveys.

PURPOSE: The aim is to identify the characteristics of common health survey questions that may be associated with cross-cultural variability in question comprehension. METHODS: Interviews with respondents representing four cultural subgroups in the United States were analyzed through behavior coding to identify survey question characteristics that may be associated with cross-cultural variability in comprehension. Using survey responses as the unit of analysis, nested within survey respondents and survey questions, hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the effects of four questionnaire design features on cultural variations in comprehension difficulties. RESULTS: Respondent culture was found to moderate the effects of response format, question length, and reading levels. CONCLUSIONS: Several question design strategies that reduce overall comprehension difficulty appear to also increase cross-cultural disparities.

Cognitive Science↗