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Kienzler, Julia; Voss, Thamar; Wittwer, Jörg – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Teachers need knowledge about operant conditioning as an important way to prevent student misbehavior. In an experiment with 181 student teachers, we investigated how the acquisition of conceptual knowledge about operant conditioning can be promoted through case comparisons. Our results showed that case comparison effectively supported the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Knowledge Level, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Processes
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Alshammari, Ali – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Research relevant to Captology in education is in its infancy. Despite its relative newness, a dearth of literature exists on the subject that addresses the design of a persuasive game for educational purposes. Up to this point, the literature does not include any instructional design theories or theoretical frameworks that can be used…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Theories, Game Theory, Design
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Leganes-Fonteneau, Mateo; Nikolaou, Kyriaki; Scott, Ryan; Duka, Theodora – Learning & Memory, 2019
Stimuli conditioned with a substance can generate drug-approach behaviors due to their acquired motivational properties. According to implicit theories of addiction, these stimuli can decrease cognitive control automatically. The present study (n = 49) examined whether reward-associated stimuli can interfere with cognitive processes in the absence…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Rewards, Conditioning, Bayesian Statistics
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Blask, Katarina; Walther, Eva; Halbeisen, Georg; Weil, Rebecca – Learning and Motivation, 2012
Evaluative conditioning (EC) refers to changes in the evaluation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) due to its repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus (US). One of the most debated topics in EC research is whether or not EC is dependent on contingency awareness. In this study, we go beyond this debate by examining whether contingency awareness…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Attention