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Dinsmore, Daniel L.; Alexander, Patricia A. – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
The prevailing assumption by some that deep processing promotes stronger learning outcomes while surface processing promotes weaker learning outcomes has been called into question by the inconsistency and ambiguity of results in investigations of the relation between levels of processing and performance. The purpose of this literature review is to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, Investigations, Literature Reviews
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Chang, Lei; Mak, Miranda C. K.; Li, Tong; Wu, Bao Pei; Chen, Bin Bin; Lu, Hui Jing – Educational Psychology Review, 2011
Much research has been conducted to document and sometimes to provide proximate explanations (e.g., Confucianism vs. Western philosophy) for East-West cultural differences. The ultimate evolutionary mechanisms underlying these cross-cultural differences have not been addressed. We propose in this review that East-West cultural differences (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Psychological Studies, Cultural Differences, Memorization
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Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2008
In "A tale of two cases: Lessons for education from the study of two boys living with half their brains" (M. H. Immordino-Yang, 2007), I showed that Nico (missing his right cerebral hemisphere) and Brooke (missing his left) had compensated for basic neuropsychological skills to previously unexpected degrees and argued that the ways they had…
Descriptors: Interaction, Psychological Patterns, Teaching Methods, Neuropsychology
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Mayes, Clifford – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2009
Various psychoanalysts have written about the implications of psychoanalytic theory for teaching and learning. Although many curriculum scholars have offered their personal interpretations of the relevance of psychoanalytic theory to education, there is very little in the educational literature about what psychoanalysts "themselves" have had to…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Instruction
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Perleth, Christoph; Heller, Kurt A. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
It is of major importance to use psychological tests and questionnaires that are carefully constructed so that their reliability and validity can be determined in different (sub)cultures (Campbell & Tirri, 2004). However, a necessary prerequisite for this is the development of solid conceptual constructs. Otherwise, the researcher runs into the…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Psychometrics, Models
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Kelter, Stephanie; Kaup, Barbara; Claus, Berry – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
This study explored the representation that readers construct when advancing through the description of an unfolding occurrence. In 3 experiments, participants read narratives describing a sequence of events and at a certain moment were tested for the accessibility of an entity from a past event. Entities were less accessible when the temporal…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Time Factors (Learning), Psychological Studies, Sequential Approach
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Wisniewski, Edward J.; Murphy, Gregory L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
C. L. Gagn? and E. J. Shoben (1997) proposed that concepts are combined via external relations and that lexical entries include information about which relations are frequent for every modifying noun. As evidence for this view, they showed that relations associated with the modifier affected the interpretation of combinations in several studies in…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Nouns, Stimuli, Psychological Studies
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Malmberg, Kenneth J.; Holden, Jocelyn E.; Shiffren, Richard M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2004
Judgments of frequency for targets (old items) and foils (similar; dissimilar) steadily increase as the number of times a target is studied increases, but discrimination of targets from similar foils does not steadily improve, a phenomenon termed registration without learning (D. L. Hintzman & T. Curran, 1995; D. L. Hintzman, T. Curran, & B. Oppy,…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Drills (Practice), Word Recognition, Cognitive Processes
Thorndyke, Perry W. – 1981
Much recent cognitive and artificial intelligence research has focused on the development of "schema theory." This theory supposes the existence of knowledge and memory structures that encode prototypical descriptions of familiar concepts. Schema theory has developed in a scientific environment that stresses interdisciplinary approaches…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Perkins, D. N.; And Others – 1985
Under normal instructional circumstances, some youngsters learn programming in BASIC or LOGO better than others. Clinical investigations of novice programmers suggest that this happens in part because different students bring different patterns of learning to the programming context. Many students disengage from the task whenever trouble occurs,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Style, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
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Moran, Aidan – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1991
Explores how research in learning styles can benefit from findings in cognitive psychology. Discusses difficulties of research on learning styles and two relevant findings in cognitive research: the influence of prior knowledge on learning and the potential value to learners of metacognitive awareness. Urges rigorous conceptual and empirical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Naglieri, Jack A.; Salter, Claudia J.; Edwards, Gwenyth H. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2004
This study evaluated the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) characteristics of children assessed for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD referred), children with a Reading Disability (RD), and children in Regular Education (RE). The Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) was used to assess PASS processes for the 119…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes
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Donald, Janet Gail – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1981
Psychological research, it is suggested, has made significant contributions to Canadian higher education. Cognition and learning, the measurement of student abilities, instruction, the evaluation of teaching, student characteristics, the organization and operation of the university, and program evaluation are examined. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, College Instruction, Educational Psychology