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Strategy Training: A Need for Clarification.
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deBettencourt, Laurie U. – Exceptional Children, 1987
Based on three areas of research (memory, selective attention, and metacognition), three strategy training interventions with learning disabled children are described: Lloyd's academic strategy training, Torgeson's strategy training, and Deshler's learning strategies model. Individual approaches may be appropriate only for selected subgroups of…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes
Strategies To Enhance Memory Based on Brain-Research.
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Banikowski, Alison K.; Mehring, Teresa A. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1999
This article reviews the literature on three aspects of memory: (1) an information processing model of memory (including the sensory register, attention, short-term memory, and long-term memory); (2) instructional strategies designed to enhance memory (which stress gaining students' attention and active involvement); and (3) reasons why…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Processing, Instructional Effectiveness
Fantasy Activity and the Televiewing Event: Considerations for an Information Processing Construct of Involvement.
Lindlof, Thomas R. – 1980
The similarities between television viewing and fantasy activity (daydreaming, reverie, mind-wandering, internal dialogue) more than warrant the building of a theoretical construct, especially in the context of recent empirical research on television viewing consequences. A construct of the television viewing process, based on cognitive theories…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Fantasy
Biology in Context: Social and Cultural Perspectives on ADHD. Research Review.
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Singh, Ilina – Children & Society, 2002
Reviews approaches to attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) that are alternatives to the biomedical model. Addresses the general problem of description and classification of behaviors into the ADHD diagnosis and discusses perspectives on sociocultural factors in ADHD behaviors, diagnosis, and treatment approaches. Maintains that ADHD…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior, Children
Attention, Memory, and the "Noticing" Hypothesis.
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Robinson, Peter – Language Learning, 1995
Reviews research on the nature of attention and memory and proposes a model of the relationship between them during second-language acquisition complementary to Schmidt's noticing hypothesis and oppositional to Krashen's dual-system hypothesis. The article maintains that differential performance on implicit and explicit learning and memory…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Rethinking Attention Deficit Disorders.
Cherkes-Julkowski, Miriam; And Others – 1997
This book reviews issues concerning attention deficit disorders (ADDs) in the context of a systems perspective. ADDs are viewed as resulting from dynamic interactions of behavior, cognition, and affect, out of which emerge distinct and idiosyncratic ways of coping. Chapter 1 looks at the interaction of attention and behavior. In chapter 2, the…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Patterns