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Chen, Ouhao; Paas, Fred; Sweller, John – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Spaced and interleaved practices have been identified as effective learning strategies which sometimes are conflated as a single strategy and at other times treated as distinct. Learning sessions in which studying information or practicing problems are spaced in time with rest-from-deliberate-learning periods between sessions generally result in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Short Term Memory, Intervals
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Oberauer, Klaus; Souza, Alessandra S.; Druey, Michel D.; Gade, Miriam – Cognitive Psychology, 2013
The article investigates the mechanisms of selecting and updating representations in declarative and procedural working memory (WM). Declarative WM holds the objects of thought available, whereas procedural WM holds representations of what to do with these objects. Both systems consist of three embedded components: activated long-term memory, a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Tests, Short Term Memory, Intervals
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Kron, Assaf; Schul, Yaacov; Cohen, Asher; Hassin, Ran R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
We propose that experience of emotion is a mental phenomenon, which requires resources. This hypothesis implies that a concurrent cognitive load diminishes the intensity of feeling since the 2 activities are competing for the same resources. Two sets of experiments tested this hypothesis. The first line of experiments (Experiments 1-4) examined…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Emotional Experience, Psychological Patterns, Stimuli
Grant, Timothy S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2008
Confidence intervals are beginning to play an increasing role in the reporting of research findings within the social and behavioral sciences and, consequently, are becoming more prevalent in beginning classes in statistics and research methods. Confidence intervals are an attractive means of conveying experimental results, as they contain a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervals, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
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Grondin, Simon – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
This study tested the hypothesis that memory is a major source of variance in temporal processing. Participants categorized intervals as short or long. The number of base durations and interval types mixed within blocks of trials varied from 1 session to another. Results revealed that mixing 2 base durations within blocks increased categorization…
Descriptors: Memory, Cognitive Processes, Hypothesis Testing, Intervals