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Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; Schooler, Lael J.; Rieskamp, Jorg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Counterintuitively, Y. Kareev, I. Lieberman, and M. Lev (1997) found that a lower short-term memory capacity benefits performance on a correlation detection task. They assumed that people with low short-term memory capacity (low spans) perceived the correlations as more extreme because they relied on smaller samples, which are known to exaggerate…
Descriptors: Prediction, Short Term Memory, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing
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Sheikh, Alia I.; Marotta, Sylvia A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2005
This article is a cross-validation of R. G. Tedeschi and L. G. Calhoun's (1996) original study of the development of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). It describes several psychometric properties of scores on the PTGI in a sample of middle- to old-aged adults with a history of cardiovascular disease. The results did not support the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Program Validation, Item Analysis, Misconceptions