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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: A/Prof Naomi Sweller (Department of Psychology – Macquarie University)
DESCRIPTION:A/Prof Naomi SwellerDepartment of Psychology\, Macquarie University\nTitle: I (might!) listen\, but I’m also watching: Effects of gestures on learning and communication\nAbstract: We often think of “communication” as meaning verbal interactions only\, or perhaps the effect of a smile or a frown. Less frequently considered are the hand gestures that can co-occur with speech. These movements\, made either a speaker or a listener with their hands or arms\, can have sizeable effects on learning. We learn more when we watch others’ gestures than from speech alone\, and producing our own gestures can similarly benefit task performance. In this presentation we will look at when gestures might be beneficial to learning and communication\, as well as discussing the effects of different types and sub-types of gestures on a variety of tasks. We will look at the effects of task difficulty\, as well as individual differences such as age and cognitive ability. Finally\, we will look at when perhaps gestures might not be beneficial\, including some rather counter-intuitive findings of negative effects of gesture production on learning.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-a-prof-naomi-sweller-department-of-psychology-macquarie-university/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Oren Griffiths (College of Education\, Psychology and Social Work – Flinders University)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Oren GriffithsCollege of Education\, Psychology and Social Work\, Flinders University\nTitle: Effects of non-contingency on learning\, attention and effort\nAbstract: Learned helplessness is one of the most widely recognized findings that psychology has produced in the public sphere. Much of the empirical work on this topic has focused on questions related to how repeated failure produces broadly generalizable decrements in motivation and performance. By contrast\, relatively little work has looked at how people learn than an event is unpredictable when faced with non-contingency. This talk focuses on how this learning takes place\, what the consequences of such learning are\, and whether learning that a particular stimulus is unpredictable is qualitatively distinct to classic learned helplessness effects. We used a mix of behavioural\, gaze fixation and pupil dilation measures\, and conclude that environmental factors may play an important role in governing the consequences of exposure to non-contingency (in addition to cognitive attributions).
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-oren-griffiths-college-of-education-psychology-and-social-work-flinders-university/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Khandis Blake (School of Psychological Sciences – University of Melbourne)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Khandis BlakeSchool of Psychological Sciences\, University of Melbourne\nTitle: On the causes and consequences of female sexualisation:  A nature/nurture approach that incorporates female agency.\nAbstract: The last decade has seen an increasing interest in the saturation of popular Western culture by representations of sex. What drives the proliferation of female sexualisation\, and is this something that advantages—or disadvantages—women? In a series of studies combining insights from social psychology\, economics\, gender studies\, and biology\, I examine the causes and consequences of female sexualisation\, especially as they pertain to women’s agency. I will show that sexualisation is rooted not just in cultural conditions\, but also in patterns of endogenous hormones and degrees of socioeconomic inequality. Using this evidence\, I argue that sexualisation can express a form of female agency that facilitates social climbing and status-enhancement for women. That is not to say that sexualisation entails no risks for women. I will also show that sexualisation activates intra- and inter-personal psychological processes in others\, and that these processes increase the risk of women suffering harm. I synthesise these paradoxical findings to provide a functional account of female sexualisation\, highlighting the value of integrating competing disciplinary perspectives to understand complex gendered phenomena.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-khandis-blake-school-of-psychological-sciences-university-of-melbourne/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Dr Laura Bradfield (School of Life Sciences – UTS)
DESCRIPTION:Dr Laura BradfieldSchool of Life Sciences\, UTS\nTitle: Contextual regulation of reinstatement involving choice\nAbstract: Relapse to substance use disorder\, overeating\, or other maladaptive actions following abstinence and/or therapy is commonly modelled in animals\, however\, the majority of these studies employ procedures that are either Pavlovian\, or involve only a single instrumental response. Therefore\, the mechanisms of relapse in situations involving choice between multiple actions and outcomes are less well-understood. To address this question\, we investigated the contextual modulation of outcome-selective reinstatement. In Experiment 1\, rats were trained to press a left and a right lever for a pellet and a sucrose outcome\, respectively (counterbalanced) in context A. Extinction on both levers then took place in either context A or B\, followed by testing in context A or B. This rendered 4 groups in total: AAA\, AAB\, ABA\, and ABB. On test\, animals received ‘free’ deliveries of pellets or sucrose and their subsequent lever presses recorded. Group AAA reinstated selectively on the lever that had previously earned the presented outcome (e.g. pellet presentation reinstated pressing on the pellet lever\, sucrose on the sucrose lever). Surprisingly\, animals in group ABB also demonstrated intact outcome-selective reinstatement (reinstated > nonreinstated)\, suggesting that outcome-response (O-R) contingency knowledge had transferred across contexts. In contrast\, animals in groups AAB and ABA responded equally on both levers (i.e. reinstated = nonreinstated)\, suggesting that extinction learning\, unlike O-r learning\, was context-dependent. Experiment 2 was conducted identically\, except that rats received two sessions of extinction and were tested one day later rather than immediately. This time\, all groups demonstrated evidence of intact outcome-selective reinstatement\, regardless of context. Together\, these findings support the notion that any contextual modulation of instrumental responding involving choice is transient\, and occurs immediately after new learning but not when that learning is well-established.
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-dr-laura-bradfield-school-of-life-sciences-uts/
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