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Schalk, Herman H.; van der Schee, Joop A.; Boersma, Kerst Th. – Research in Science Education, 2013
Ensuring the quality of investigations requires the understanding of procedures by which empirical evidence is obtained. This can be interpreted as becoming aware of and using criteria for evidence in one's mental structure. The question is whether this process can be observed in practice. In two schools for pre-university education where 11th…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Biology, Science Education
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Boehm, Julia K.; Kubzansky, Laura D. – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
This review investigates the association between positive psychological well-being (PPWB) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). We also consider the mechanisms by which PPWB may be linked with CVD, focusing on the health behaviors (e.g., smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, sleep quality and quantity, and food consumption) and biological…
Descriptors: Evidence, Investigations, Physical Activities, Health Promotion
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van Dam, Wessel O.; Hommel, Bernhard – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Given the distributed representation of visual features in the human brain, binding mechanisms are necessary to integrate visual information about the same perceptual event. It has been assumed that feature codes are bound into object files--pointers to the neural codes of the features of a given event. The present study investigated the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli
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Lubke, Gitta H.; Hudziak, James J.; Derks, Eske M.; van Bijsterveldt, Toos C. E. M.; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: To investigate whether items assessing attention problems provide evidence of quantitative differences or categorically distinct subtypes of attention problems (APs) and to investigate the relation of empirically derived latent classes to "DSM-IV" diagnoses of subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Behavior, Severity (of Disability)