naa a22 4500 510777384 CHVBK 20180411083235.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.3758/s13428-012-0264-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.3758/s13428-012-0264-3 Gamelike features might not improve data [Elektronische Daten] [Guy Hawkins, Babette Rae, Keith Nesbitt, Scott Brown] Many psychological experiments require participants to complete lots of trials in a monotonous task, which often induces boredom. An increasingly popular approach to alleviate such boredom is to incorporate gamelike features into standard experimental tasks. Games are assumed to be interesting and, hence, motivating, and better motivated participants might produce better data (with fewer lapses in attention and greater accuracy). Despite its apparent prevalence, the assumption that gamelike features improve data is almost completely untested. We test this assumption by presenting a choice task and a change detection task in both gamelike and standard forms. Response latency, accuracy, and overall task performance were unchanged by gamelike features in both experiments. We present a novel cognitive model for the choice task, based on particle filtering, to decorrelate the dependent variables and measure performance in a more psychologically meaningful manner. The model-based analyses are consistent with the hypothesis that gamelike features did not alter cognition. A postexperimental questionnaire indicated that the gamelike version provided a more positive and enjoyable experience for participants than the standard task, even though this subjective experience did not translate into data effects. Although our results hold only for the two experiments examined, the gamelike features we incorporated into both tasks were typical of—and at least as salient and interesting as those usually used by—experimental psychologists. Our results suggest that modifying an experiment to include gamelike features, while leaving the basic task unchanged, may not improve the quality of the data collected, but it may provide participants with a better experimental experience. Psychonomic Society, Inc., 2012 Computer game nationallicence Gamelike features nationallicence Response time nationallicence Multialternative choice nationallicence Change detection nationallicence Speed-accuracy trade-off nationallicence Particle filter nationallicence Hawkins Guy School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut Rae Babette School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut Nesbitt Keith School of Design, Communication & Information Technology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut Brown Scott School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut Behavior Research Methods Springer-Verlag 45/2(2013-06-01), 301-318 45:2<301 2013 45 13428 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0264-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0264-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hawkins Guy School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rae Babette School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nesbitt Keith School of Design, Communication & Information Technology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Scott School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Callaghan, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Research Methods Springer-Verlag 45/2(2013-06-01), 301-318 45:2<301 2013 45 13428 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer