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Oberauer, Klaus – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Three experiments with short-term recognition tasks are reported. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants decided whether a probe matched a list item specified by its spatial location. Items presented at study in a different location (intrusion probes) had to be rejected. Serial position curves of positive, new, and intrusion probes over the probed…
Descriptors: Phonology, Familiarity, Serial Ordering, Experiments
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Durik, Amanda M.; Vida, Mina; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
This study examines how competence beliefs and task values predict high school achievement choices related to literacy. Students' task beliefs (self-concept of ability, intrinsic value, and importance) about reading in the 4th grade and English in the 10th grade were tracked over time. Task beliefs, school performance, and gender were used to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes, Recreational Reading