Classic Psychology Experiments You Can Run on Yourself: Reaction Time, Stroop, Flanker, N-Back and Risk-Taking Tasks

Semantic Priming: Related Meanings Speed Word Recognition The Iowa Gambling Task: Learning to Avoid Risky Decks The Sternberg Task: Serial Exhaustive Memory Scanning Human Reaction Time and Sensorimotor Feedback Loops Numerical Stroop: Physical Size and Numerical Magnitude Interfere The Balloon Analogue Risk Task Measures Risk-Taking Under Uncertainty Simple Reaction Time Measures Baseline Processing Speed The Antisaccade Task: Suppressing a Reflexive Eye Movement Adaptive Staircases Find a Just-Noticeable Difference Posner Cueing Shows Covert Attention Shifts Before the Eyes Move Delay Discounting: Preferring Smaller-Sooner over Larger-Later Rewards The Simon Effect: Irrelevant Stimulus Location Biases Responses The Eriksen Flanker Task Isolates Response Conflict from Distractors QUEST: Bayesian Adaptive Threshold Estimation The Stroop Effect: Automatic Reading Interferes with Colour Naming Explore–Exploit Trade-off in a Multi-Armed Bandit Self-Paced Reading Measures Sentence Processing Difficulty Word by Word Wisconsin Card Sorting Measures Cognitive Flexibility and Perseveration Digit Span Measures Short-Term Memory Capacity The Ultimatum Game: Fairness Norms Override Pure Self-Interest The N-Back Task Loads Working Memory Updating Mental Rotation Time Grows Linearly with Angular Disparity Choice Reaction Time Adds a Decision Cost to Baseline Speed Continuous Performance Tests Measure Sustained Attention and Impulsivity Bilingual Stroop: Interference Transfers Across a Speaker's Languages The Müller-Lyer Illusion: Arrowheads Distort Perceived Length Visual Search: Feature Pop-Out versus Serial Conjunction Search Working Memory Model Go/No-Go Tasks Measure Response Inhibition The Dot-Probe Task Measures Attentional Bias Toward Threat The Implicit Association Test Measures Automatic Associations by Response Latency Change Detection Reveals the Limits of Visual Working Memory The Word Superiority Effect: Letters Are Recognised Better in Words Cyberball: Social Exclusion in a Virtual Ball Toss Lexical Decision Tasks Measure Word Recognition Speed Navon Figures Reveal Global Precedence in Perception