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Kristin Bartlett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
At the highest level, this dissertation is a case study on how bias can become encoded into the tools used to measure a construct and into the very definition of the construct itself. In this case, the construct is spatial ability. This dissertation focuses on the validity and accuracy of spatial tests and illuminates gender bias that is…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Student Evaluation, Measures (Individuals), Validity
Moore, David M. – 1985
This study examined the effects and interaction of multiple and linear visual presentation modes and cognitive style on performance in a visual location task. Subjects were 132 undergraduate college students (40 males, 92 females) in professional education courses. The Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT, Wilkin et al., 1971) was used to identify…
Descriptors: College Students, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education, Intermode Differences
Hortin, John A. – 1985
Two studies were conducted to train students to use imagery in their learning and to investigate whether such training would transfer to solving visual puzzles and verbal problems. In the first study, with 78 graduate students, 29 experimental-group subjects were given a lecture and slide presentation designed to teach about imagery. Both the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Imagery, Problem Solving
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Rose, Susan A.; Feldman, Judith F. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examined the stability of two aspects of infant visual attention derived from the paired-comparison procedure in infants tested at 6, 7, and 8 months of age. The two aspects were novelty preference and exposure time. Suggests that both novelty and exposure-time scores reflect moderately stable but independent characteristics of infant behavior.…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Time Factors (Learning)
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Smith, P. Hull – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Studies the ability of 5-month-old infants to recall temporal information and use temporal organization by training them to fixate a hierarchically structured or unstructured sequence of stimuli which appeared in four spatial positions. Results are interpreted within a temporal organizational framework; infants appear to use organization within…
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Infants, Perception, Perceptual Development
Harris, Jill L.; Mosley, James L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992
Twenty-four adults with mild mental retardation were compared with equal-mental age children and adults without mental retardation on tactile processing asymmetries. Results suggest that hemispheric processing is dependent on information processing requirements rather than type of stimulus. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Handedness
Walker, Alice D., Ed.; And Others – 1984
This document includes 46 papers presented at the International Visual Literacy Association Conference on topics ranging from prehistoric cave paintings to technology of the future. Major sections are devoted to research and theory, education, computer technology, and phototherapy. Emphasis is on increased understanding of opportunities available…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Oriented Programs
Canelos, James; And Others – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1986
Describes the third in a series of studies investigating effects of psychological variable of encoding specificity on cognitive learning, test design, and visualization during instruction and testing. Encoding specificity, its application to classroom learning and testing, and its significance to educational technology are explained. The first two…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Instructional Design