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Gender-Based Behavioral Analysis for End-User Development and the "RULES" Attributes
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Tzafilkou, Katerina; Protogeros, Nicolaos; Karagiannidis, Charalampos; Koumpis, Adamantios – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This paper addresses the role of gender in End-User Development (EUD) environments and examines whether there are gender differences in performance and in correlations between performance and a set of behavioral attributes. Based on a review of the most prominent EUD-related behavioral Human Computer Interaction (HCI) theories, and the influence…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Correlation, Performance Based Assessment, Gender Differences
Embodiment Meets Metamemory: Weight as a Cue for Metacognitive Judgments
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Alban, Michael W.; Kelley, Colleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Weight is conceptualized as an embodiment of importance, according to recent research on embodied cognition (Ackerman, Nocera, & Bargh, 2010; Jostmann, Lakens, & Schubert, 2009). Is importance as embodied by weight used as a cue that items are memorable? Four experiments varied participants' perceptual experiences of weight as they studied…
Descriptors: Cues, Memory, Metacognition, Schemata (Cognition)
The Relationship between High School Students' Attributions and Achievement and Their Perceptions of Teachers' Expectations
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Reader, Tanya – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students enter secondary classrooms armed with attributions for their own successes or failures, informed by experiences in and out of school, but it is unclear to what degree these attributions affect achievement. Additionally, while the influence teacher expectations can have on student achievement is well documented, students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
Effects of Marital Communication Upon Marital Problems.
Banwart, Albert L. – 1980
Although research suggests that marital communication is causally related to marital satisfaction, the processes by which marital communication style affects marital relationships have not been identified. These communication styles (conventional, speculative, controlling, contactful) are based on the degrees of self-disclosure and openness to the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Communication Skills, Correlation, Disclosure
Attributional Style, Task Selection, and Achievement.
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Fyans, Leslie J., Jr.; Maehr, Martin L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Fifth- through twelfth-grade students completed a causal attribution questionnaire and were asked to choose one of three games to play. Students who attributed their own success on achievement tasks to ability, effort, or luck were more likely to prefer to perform tasks that were compatible with such beliefs. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Correlation
Favorite Activities for the Teaching of Psychology
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Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr., Ed. – APA Books, 2008
The most popular activities from APA's successful "Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology" are gathered together and updated in this book of teachers' favorites. The lesson plans, which encourage active learning and involve the whole class, have stood the test of time and proven themselves to be entertaining, effective, and easy to…
Descriptors: Psychology, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans