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Chen, Wenfeng; Ren, Naixin; Young, Andrew W.; Liu, Chang Hong – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The composite face paradigm (Young, Hellawell, & Hay, 1987) is widely used to demonstrate holistic perception of faces (Rossion, 2013). In the paradigm, parts from different faces (usually the top and bottom halves) are recombined. The principal criterion for holistic perception is that responses involving the component parts of composites in…
Descriptors: Human Body, Visual Stimuli, Responses, Gender Differences
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Phillips, Alana S.; Sheffield, Anneliese; Moore, Michelle; Robinson, Heather A. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2016
There is a need for a holistic usability evaluation framework that accommodates social constructivist online courses. Social knowledge construction may not be adequately evaluated using current frameworks. This qualitative research study examined the usability needs of a social constructivist online course. Data from an online course were analyzed…
Descriptors: Usability, Online Courses, Constructivism (Learning), Qualitative Research
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Opfer, John E.; Thompson, Clarissa A. – Child Development, 2008
Spontaneous transfer of learning is often difficult to elicit. This finding may be widespread partly because pretests proactively interfere with transfer. To test this hypothesis, 7-year-olds' transfer was examined across 2 numerical tasks (number line estimation and categorization) in which similar representational changes have been observed. As…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Elementary School Students, Pretesting, Computation