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Retrospective duration estimations for variant and invariant events in field situations
Author(s) -
Yarmey A. Daniel
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(200001)14:1<45::aid-acp623>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - psychology , duration (music) , invariant (physics) , statistics , mathematics , mathematical physics , literature , art
Retrospective duration estimations were investigated immediately after participation in everyday, naturalistic activities which ranged between 4 seconds and 80 minutes in length. Those events which remain invariant over time were more accurately estimated than events which are variable in length. Support was found for Vierordt's Law (1868); short events were overestimated and longer events were underestimated. Imagery‐rehearsal had no significant effect on duration estimation. Age of participants was not related to duration estimations. Women gave reliably longer estimations than men, but no reliable differences were found for gender when estimations were based on events which were frequently experienced in familiar settings. Confidence–accuracy correlations were reliable for judgements of invariant events but not for variant events. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.