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Relationship between Extensions and Intensions in Categorization: A Match Made in Heaven?
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Djalal, Farah Mutiasari; Hampton, James A.; Storms, Gert; Heyman, Tom – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The present study investigated the relationship between category extension and intension for 11 different semantic categories. It is often tacitly assumed that there is a (strong) extension-intension link. However, a recent study by Hampton and Passanisi (2016) examining the patterns of stable individual differences in concepts across participants…
Descriptors: Classification, Semantics, Evaluative Thinking, Correlation
Religious Affiliation, Ethnicity, and Power in Admission Policies to Jewish Religious Schools
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Perry-Hazan, Lotem – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This paper analyzes the challenges embedded in the conflict between the right to accessible education, which implies a prohibition on discriminatory practices in school admission, and the right to adaptable education, which accommodates children's cultural affiliations. It shows that a normative lens, which examines the ways by which legal rules…
Descriptors: Judaism, Religious Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Field-Identification IAT Predicts Students' Academic Persistence over and above Theory of Planned Behavior Constructs
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Roland, Nathalie; Mierop, Adrien; Frenay, Mariane; Corneille, Olivier – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Ajzen and Dasgupta (2015) recently invited complementing Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) measures with measures borrowed from implicit cognition research. In this study, we examined for the first time such combination, and we did so to predict academic persistence. Specifically, 169 first-year college students answered a TPB questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Predictor Variables, Intention, Behavior
Manual Signing in Adults with Intellectual Disability: Influence of Sign Characteristics on Functional Sign Vocabulary
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Meuris, Kristien; Maes, Bea; De Meyer, Anne-Marie; Zink, Inge – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of sign characteristics in a key word signing (KWS) system on the functional use of those signs by adults with intellectual disability (ID). Method: All 507 signs from a Flemish KWS system were characterized in terms of phonological, iconic, and referential characteristics.…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Adults, Mental Retardation, Foreign Countries
Developmental and Social Determinants of Religious Social Categorization
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van der Straten Waillet, Nastasya; Roskam, Isabelle – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2012
The purpose of this study was to assess developmental and social determinants of the age at which children become aware that the social environment can be marked by categorization into religious groups and that those groups are associated with different religious beliefs. The results show that middle childhood is a critical period for this…
Descriptors: Females, Social Environment, Religious Cultural Groups, Socialization
Classification, Seriation, and Counting in Grades 1, 2, and 3 as Two-Year Longitudinal Predictors for Low Achieving in Numerical Facility and Arithmetical Achievement?
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Desoete, Annemie; Stock, Pieter; Schepens, Annemie; Baeyens, Dieter; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2009
Previous research stresses the importance of seriation, classification, and counting abilities that should be assessed in kindergarten, when looking for crucial predictors of mathematical learning disabilities in Grade 1. This study examines (n = 158) two-year-long predictive relationships between children's seriation, classification, procedural…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Tests, Classification