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Chauliac, Margot; Catrysse, Leen; Gijbels, David; De Maeyer, Sven; Donche, Vincent – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Completing questionnaires is a complex task in which multiple cognitive processes play an important role. Despite critiques of the reliability of questionnaires, our research strived to gain more insight into the process of completing questionnaires by using eye-tracking. We investigated how both the question and the categories of answers were…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires, Eye Movements, Individual Differences
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Conway, Michelle R.; Marshall, Mallory R.; Schlaff, Rebecca A.; Talge, Nicole M.; Pfeiffer, Karin A.; Pivarnik, James M. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2020
To evaluate the validity of the Pregnancy Physical Activity (PA) Questionnaire (PPAQ) for long-term PA recall. Forty-eight women completed the PPAQ at 21, 32 weeks gestation, and 12 weeks postpartum. These women were emailed three separate PPAQs between two months and eight years after originally completing the questionnaires to recall their PA…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Questionnaires, Pregnancy, Physical Activity Level
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Cavazos, Jenel T.; Stern, William; Stephenson, Elise; Heddy, Benjamin – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Belief in psychological misconceptions has potential repercussions for both students and potentially society as a whole. We present a creative and engaging myth refutation assignment that uses an infographic format to promote the refutation of psychological misconceptions. A total of 166 students completed the myth refutation assignment, along…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Visual Aids, Information Dissemination, Assignments
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Khan, Sanjida; Haque, Shamsul – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Past research has shown that trauma-exposed refugee people frequently report less specific autobiographical memories, but the characteristics of their future episodic thinking remain largely unexplored. This study investigated the specificity and emotional valence of autobiographical memory and future episodic thinking produced by 120 Rohingya…
Descriptors: Refugees, Ethnic Groups, Memory, Autobiographies
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Nin, Verónica; Delgado, Hernán; Muniz-Terrera, Graciela; Carboni, Alejandra – Developmental Science, 2022
Executive functions (EF), either conceptualized as skills involved in regulation of cognition and emotion in service of goal-oriented behavior, or reductively as working memory, flexibility and inhibitory control, are commonly invoked constructs in developmental science. Two main traditions on EFs measurement prevail, one consisting of ratings…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Measurement, Behavior Rating Scales, Preschool Children
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Nour, Payam; Esfandiari, Rajab; Zarei, Abbas Ali – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
To determine the inherent components of language learners' capacity for metamemory maturity, the researchers drafted a metamemory maturity (MMM) questionnaire based on Hultsch et al.'s (Memory self-knowledge and self-efficacy in the aged, Springer-Verlag 65-92, 1988) model. The volunteer participants were a heterogeneous sample of 356 male and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Maturity Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Mazachowsky, Tessa R.; Mahy, Caitlin E. V. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Future-oriented cognition (planning, prospective memory, episodic foresight, saving, and delay of gratification) involves a critical set of skills that children must develop for successful daily functioning. The current study developed the Children's Future Thinking Questionnaire (CFTQ), a parent-report on 3- to 7-year-olds' future-oriented…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Long Range Planning, Memory
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Caci, Barbara; Scrima, Fabrizio; Cardaci, Maurizio; Miceli, Silvana – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2020
The present study provided a cross-cultural validation of the Thinking About Life Experiences Scale--Revised (TALE-R) in an Italian sample of Facebook users (n = 492; female = 378; male = 114; mean age 26.1) to test for replication and universality of the TALE-R three-factor model. Furthermore, it explored the interrelations among gender, age, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Experience, Autobiographies
Matinceková, Lucia; Jiang, Matthew J.; Adams, Jamal D.; Menendez, David; Hernandez, Iseli G.; Barber, Gregory; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined how participants' memories of socialization regarding death might influence their self-reported coping with losses in childhood and adulthood. We recruited 318 adults to complete an online survey. Path analyses indicated that participants who remembered their parents shielding them less from issues…
Descriptors: Coping, Death, Socialization, Parent Child Relationship
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Tuba Rahna; Sumbal Nawaz; Salma Siddiqui; Charlie Lewis – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study was conducted to investigate whether a translated and adapted conversational training programme enhances emotion understanding in preschool children. Given the lack of such research in Pakistan (and outside the West in general), the training study reported here was conceived to fill this gap. Thirty-nine 5- to 6-year-olds at two school…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems
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Saraiva, Renan Benigno; van Boeijen, Inger Mathilde; Hope, Lorraine; Horselenberg, Robert; Sauerland, Melanie; van Koppen, Peter J. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
Metamemory can be defined as the knowledge about one's memory capabilities and about strategies that can aid memory. In this paper, we describe the development and validation of the Eyewitness Metamemory Scale (EMS), tailored specifically for use in face memory and eyewitness identification settings. Participants (N = 800) completed the EMS and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Human Body
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Chauliac, Margot; Catrysse, Leen; Gijbels, David; Donche, Vincent – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
Although self-report questionnaires are widely used, researchers debate whether responses to these types of questionnaires are valid representations of the respondent's actual thoughts and beliefs. In order to provide more insight into the quality of questionnaire data, we aimed to gain an understanding of the processes that impact the completion…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Measurement Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Questionnaires
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Tan, Tanya Y.; Jain, Misha; Obaid, Teeba; Nesbit, John C. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
Learning management systems (LMS) offer quiz tools that help students prepare for examinations. The purpose of this study is to investigate quiz tracking variables typically reported by LMS in relation to student achievement, motivation and learning strategies. The data from 143 undergraduate students comprised quiz tracking variables (number of…
Descriptors: Tests, Time on Task, Student Motivation, Learning Strategies
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Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers
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Welcome, Suzanne E.; Meza, Rebecca A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The Adult Reading History Questionnaire (ARHQ; Lefly & Pennington, 2000) is a widely used measure of self-reported reading difficulties. We explored the factor structure underlying this questionnaire using both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. A six-factor solution emerged, with childhood reading ability, current reading attitude,…
Descriptors: Adults, Questionnaires, Reading Difficulties, Factor Structure
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