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McNamara, Danielle S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This article provides a commentary within the special issue, Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension. According to most contemporary frameworks, a driving force in comprehension is the reader's ability to generate the links among the words and sentences (ideas) in the texts and between the ideas in the text and what the readers already know. As…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This article provides a commentary within the special issue, Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension. According to most contemporary frameworks, a driving force in comprehension is the reader's ability to generate the links among the words and sentences (ideas) in the texts and between the ideas in the text and what the readers already know. As…
Descriptors: Inferences, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research
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Graham, Susan A.; Madigan, Sheri – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
The articles in this special issue of the "Journal of Cognition and Development" examine the cognitive development of children who are following typical and atypical developmental pathways. The articles offer a mixture of theory-based considerations, reviews of the literature, and new empirical data addressing fundamental aspects of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Psychology
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D'Amico, Antonella; Cardaci, Maurizio; Di Nuovo, Santo; Naglieri, Jack A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
Lynn (2010a, 2010b) argued that individuals from south Italy have a lower IQ than individuals from north Italy, and that these differences in IQ are at the basis of north-south gap in income, education, infant mortality, stature, and literacy. In the present paper, we discuss several theoretical and methodological aspects which we regard as flaws…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability
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Bostwick, J. Michael; Alexander, Cara – Academic Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: The goal of this study was to evaluate a recent medical school curriculum change at our institution 3 years ago; specifically: shortening the Psychiatry core clerkship from 4 to 3 weeks and adding an optional 6-week core/elective combination rotation in lieu of the 3-week core. The authors aimed to determine whether clerkship length was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Medical Students, Medical Schools, Behavioral Objectives
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Murayama, Kou; Elliot, Andrew J. – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
In their commentary, D. W. Johnson, Johnson, and Roseth (2012) provided some laudatory statements about our article, but they also expressed a number of concerns. The concerns focus on the following issues: types and definitions of competition, our choice of control group, the nature of performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Competition, Control Groups, Models
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Winegard, Benjamin; Bailey, Drew H.; Oxford, Jonathan; Geary, David C. – American Psychologist, 2010
Comments on Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations by Confer et al. We applaud Confer et al.'s (February-March 2010) clarifications of the many misconceptions surrounding the use of evolutionary analyses in psychology. As they noted, such misunderstandings are common and result in a curious tendency of some…
Descriptors: Evolution, Psychologists, Psychology, Misconceptions
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Widaman, Keith F.; Grimm, Kevin J. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2009
Nesselroade, Gerstorf, Hardy, and Ram developed a new and interesting way to enforce invariance at the second-order level in P-technique models, while allowing first-order structure to stray from invariance. We discuss our concerns with this approach under the headings of falsifiability, the nature of manifest variables included in models, and…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Models, Factor Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Bootsma, Reinoud J.; Fernandez, Laure; Morice, Antoine H. P.; Montagne, Gilles – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Using a two-step approach, Van Soest et al. (2010) recently questioned the pertinence of the conclusions drawn by Bootsma and Van Wieringen (1990) with respect to the visual regulation of an exemplary rapid interceptive action: the attacking forehand drive in table tennis. In the first step, they experimentally compared the movement behaviors of…
Descriptors: Architecture, Racquet Sports, Human Body, Motion
Vul, Edward; Harris, Christine; Winkielman, Piotr; Pashler, Harold – Online Submission, 2009
We are grateful to the commentators for providing many stimulating and valuable observations. The main point of our article was to call attention to the overestimation of individual differences correlations in a subset of neuroimaging papers. To structure our discussion of these comments, we list the main points from our paper, note where…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Individual Differences, Psychological Patterns, Correlation
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Birdsong, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
Clahsen and Felser (CF) deserve praise for their superlative synthesis of literature relating to grammatical processing, as well as for their original contributions to this area of research. CF "explore the idea that there might be fundamental differences between child L1 and adult L2 processing." The researchers present evidence that adult second…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Dominance, Grammar, Second Languages
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Martin, Warren Bryan – New Directions for Higher Education, 1985
Both corporations and colleges aspire to excellence but often fall short of it. Although there are important similarities and differences between the two cultures, colleges and universities must become informed by and about their corporate counterparts. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Administration, College Environment, Comparative Analysis
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Duncan, Robert M. – Developmental Review, 1995
Responds to calls for combining the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky, discussing differences between the two perspectives. Notes that differences are found in underlying assumptions about the nature and process of development, philosophy, stages of development, developmental influences, and the integrity of cognitive structures. Suggests that, given…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Glassman, Michael – Developmental Review, 1995
Addresses the extent to which differences in Piagetian and Vygotskyan psychologies make their theories incompatible. Differences result from a Vygotskyan belief in a material primary cause for development; Piagetians do not hold this view. Explores this difference in perspective, concluding that, despite it, the two approaches are compatible. (JW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Broadfoot, Patricia – Comparative Education, 1990
Comparative research on teachers' perspectives and classroom behavior must focus both on external systematic and institutional influences and on individual differences in teacher personality and background. One such systematic study of French and English elementary school teachers identified "meta-national" similarities and international, local,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research
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