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Sholl, M. Jeanne; Kenny, Ryan J.; DellaPorta, Katherine A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
A sense of direction (SOD) computes the body's facing direction relative to a reference frame grounded in the environment. The authors report on three experiments in which they used a heading-recall task to tap the functioning of a SOD system and then correlated task performance with self-reported SOD as a convergent test of the task's construct…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Experiments, Correlation, Psychological Testing
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Trafimow, David; Rice, Stephen – Psychological Review, 2008
People can use a variety of different strategies to perform tasks and these strategies all have two characteristics in common. First, they can be evaluated in comparison with either an absolute or a relative standard. Second, they can be used at varying levels of consistency. In the present article, the authors develop a general theory of task…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Performance, Scores, Performance Factors