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Jiayi Weng; Huihua He; Yu Xue; Miaomiao Guo; Chunxia Wu – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Pattern creation (PC) is creating a pattern unit based on children's own understanding of the concept of pattern, without being provided with a pattern unit as a reference, and the repetition of this pattern unit to create a complete structure. This study explored the performance and predictors of pattern creation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Public Schools, Pattern Recognition
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Montgomery, James W.; Evans, Julia L.; Fargo, Jamison D.; Schwartz, Sarah; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: We assessed the potential direct and indirect (mediated) influences of 4 cognitive mechanisms we believe are theoretically relevant to canonical and noncanonical sentence comprehension of school-age children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: One hundred seventeen children with DLD and 117 propensity-matched…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Processes, Syntax, Sentences
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Lee, Jun-Ki; Kwon, Yong-Ju – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
This study investigated the neural correlates of experts and novices during biological object pattern detection using an fMRI approach in order to reveal the neural correlates of a biologist's superior pattern discovery ability. Sixteen healthy male participants (8 biologists and 8 non-biologists) volunteered for the study. Participants were shown…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Science Curriculum
Twitchell, David, Ed. – Educational Technology, 1990
This sixth in a series of edited transcripts based on a conference at Utah State University discusses ideas from cognitive psychology that have implications for instructional design. Highlights include information processing phases; pattern recognition; short-term and long-term memory; purposes of instruction; cognitive structures; and cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Instructional Design
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Gagel, Charles W. – Journal of Adult Education, 2005
Designing effective instruction is the goal of any instructional designer. This article discusses how lesson design can be enhanced by incorporating certain fundamentals of cognitive psychology. The stages of human information processing and a typical four-step lesson are integrated in a model that can inform instructional design. (Contains 1…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness, Cognitive Psychology, Information Processing
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Regehr, Glenn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Academic Medicine, 1996
Research developments in cognitive psychology, and their implications for teaching and learning at the level of professional education, are summarized. Areas discussed include organization of long-term memory, influences on storage and retrieval from memory, problem solving and transfer/use of analogy, concept formation/categorization/pattern…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation
Foley, Mary Ann; Foley, Hugh J. – 1985
Two criteria for the automatic encoding of learning, instructional manipulation, and stimulus characteristics were studied in subjects who judged the frequency of occurrence of words, letters, and nonwords. In Experiment 1, six word lists were constructed with varying frequency of alphabet letters. A variety of instructions were presented (whether…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Incidental Learning