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Strößner, Corina; Schurz, Gerhard – Cognitive Science, 2020
The modifier effect refers to the fact that the perceived likelihood of a property in a noun category is diminished if the noun is modified. For example, "Pigs live on farms" is rated as more likely than "Dirty pigs live on farms." The modifier effect has been demonstrated in many studies, but the underlying cognitive…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Pragmatics, Nouns, Form Classes (Languages)
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Wolfe, Christopher R.; Widmer, Colin L.; Torrese, Christine V.; Dandignac, Mitchell – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
We developed a method for using Coh-Metrix to automatically analyze tutorial dialogues. Coh-Metrix, a web-based tool for automatically evaluating text, is freely available to researchers. We applied the method to 190 tutorial dialogues between women and "BRCA Gist" from two experiments. "BRCA Gist" is an intelligent tutoring…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Risk, Cancer, Females