Background and context: We address the question of what computer science students take the discipline to be. How students conceive the discipline can influence whether a student pursues computer science, what particular area within computer science they focus on and whether they persist in the discipline. In this paper, we examine the epistemic…

College students viewed a short multimedia PowerPoint presentation consisting of 16 narrated slides explaining lightning formation (Experiment 1) or 8 narrated slides explaining how a car's braking system works (Experiment 2). Each slide appeared for approximately 8-10 s and contained a diagram along with 1-2 sentences of narration spoken in a…

Describes an investigation of the effects of mnemonic processing on interference phenomena. College students in two treatment groups and a control group read fictitious biographical passages. Although integrated imagery-mnemonic subjects recalled more factual information than separate mnemonic subjects, their recall was not statistically different…