Seeking Monolingual English participants for test of visio-spatial reasoning skills and perpsective taking mechanisms and how this might be mediated by mono/bilingualism. Experiment is a game based on memory and visio-spatial cues

Submitted by Naculabulakids t3_11elyn0 in gaming

I am currently a student at University College Dublin (UCD) in my final year at the School of Psychology. I wish to conduct my Undergraduate Research Project under the supervision of Professor Klaus Kesler. I would like to invite monolingual and bilingual participants to assist in my experiment which aims to assess perspective-taking and belief judgement in these two groups. The experiment takes place online on a computer and can be done whenever the participant has 20-30 minutes to spare to perform the tasks on the simulation.

Participants must be over the age of 18 and only age, gender and whether or not the participant is mono/bilingual will be collected. Your data will be completely anonymised upon completion of the experiment

If you are interested, feel free to DM me

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xXBalaDeSilverXx t1_jaeruyl wrote

I like your funny words, magic man

Also, I'm not qualified.

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Xplodonat0r t1_jaevgpo wrote

... first sentence of your title is !monolingual!. Then you proceed talking about mono/bilingual. You already failed, good sir.

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Naculabulakids OP t1_jaevwzn wrote

I have already fulfilled my bilingual condition. That is why the title stresses monolingual. The advertisement in the post section was approved by my ethics board and thus I am not allowed change it

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Xplodonat0r t1_jaexckn wrote

The "advertisment" in a REDDIT THREAD had to be approved by your Ethics board?

I have to apologize. I whish you best of luck with your research, honestly.

And please tell your "Ethic board" to deeply fk themselves for such bullshit. Yes, I'm serious. They monitor how you advertise your study and let you not change it? I guess those are the same idiots that let all those COVID vaccines run free without proper testing... Seriously, they are monitoring this shit?

Again, best of luck for your endeavors! (No sarcasm or pun here).

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Nameless-Servant t1_jaexkp1 wrote

So what qualifies as bilingual vs monolingual in this case? If I know a little bit of a second language, but I’m nowhere near fluent, which do I qualify as for the purposes of this study? Or would that disqualify me as a candidate?

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Naculabulakids OP t1_jaeyt9l wrote

The monolingual category describes those who are fluent in one language and have minimal knowledge in another language e.g. the person who remembers how to conjugate a few verbs or even a tense or two or have a very basic conversation in Spanish is considered monolingual in my study

Bilinguals are those who are fluent in 2 languages. They are comfortable expressing and understanding most ideas in 2 languages

I disqualify those who I consider grey-area participants. Those who have an intermediate knowledge of another language e.g. someone who can have conversations in a second language about many topics but would struggle to express more complex ideas. In terms of Spanish, I would say a person with intermediate knowledge could conjugate most tenses but would struggle in the more difficult aspects of speaking such as the subjunctive forms or idioms

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