Psychology 2040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voice-Onset Time, Simon Effect, Dishabituation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

Document Summary

Disadvantage their receptive vocabulary in english will be lower than someone who only speaks one language. Advantages there may be advantages in other aspects of thinking, such as executive function. Sorting task in cards or simon task experiment testing executive function simon task green stimulus left button, purple stimulus left button. Study with card sort task compared bilinguals and monolinguals vocab was slightly lower for biliguals as expected. Executive function tasks scored out of 10, for younger children bilingual children are getting 2x more correct than the monolingual. For older children there is a slight advantage to bilingual as well but not as strong. Study for simon effect measure response time of congruent and incongruent responses. For both responses the monolinguals are slower than the bilinguals. The simon effect calculated by taking the difference of the incongruent trial and subtracting from congruent trial was larger for monolinguals than bilinguals.