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Ackerman, Rakefet; Goldsmith, Morris – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
When answering questions from memory, respondents strategically control the precision or coarseness of their answers. This grain control process is guided by 2 countervailing aims: to be informative and to be correct. Previously, M. Goldsmith, A. Koriat, and A. Weinberg Eliezer (2002) proposed a "satisficing model" in which respondents…
Descriptors: Conflict, Memory, Models, Criteria
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Armoni, Michal; Gal-Ezer, Judith – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2005
When dealing with a complex problem, solving it by reduction to simpler problems, or problems for which the solution is already known, is a common method in mathematics and other scientific disciplines, as in computer science and, specifically, in the field of computability. However, when teaching computational models (as part of computability)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Memory, Computer Science, Computer Simulation