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Weiss, Stephen M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
The effects of switching focusing strategies on complex motor skill learning were investigated using a dart-throwing task. Participants were screened for reinvestment of conscious processing by completing the Reinvestment Scale (RS) of Masters, Polman, and Hammond (1993). After an initial baseline phase, two focusing strategies were described. Low…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Cognitive Processes, Attention, Task Analysis
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Ma, Lili; Xu, Fei – Cognition, 2011
A crucial task in social interaction involves understanding subjective mental states. Here we report two experiments with toddlers exploring whether they can use statistical evidence to infer the subjective nature of preferences. We found that 2-year-olds were likely to interpret another person's nonrandom sampling behavior as a cue for a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Carless, David – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
Task-based teaching has a high profile within contemporary ELT, yet there are few analyses of the appropriateness of task-based approaches for school contexts. This paper aims to analyse the suitability of task-based teaching for Hong Kong secondary schools; and to derive some suggestions for the development of a version of task-based approaches…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Grammar, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers