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Honeycutt, James M.; And Others – Human Communication Research, 1989
Examines whether individuals can generate memory structures for increasingly intimate relationships; agree on the rank ordering of expected actions; distinguish between perceived typicality of such actions and how necessary the behaviors are for a relationship to develop; and segment prototypical scenes of developing relationships in a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Communication Research, Higher Education, Interpersonal Attraction
White, Richard T.; Gunstone, Richard F. – 1980
This paper details how memory protocols obtained in individual interviews may be translated to scores on several dimensions suggested by White. White's nine dimensions are: (1) extent, (2) precision, (3) internal consistency, (4) accord with reality, (5) variety of types of element, (6) variety of topics, (7) shape, (8) ratio of internal to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Kellermann, Kathy; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1989
Describes a two-part research project examining conversation memory organization packets (MOPs) at both cognitive and behavioral levels. Explores the nature of the informal initial conversation MOP, and examines whether discourse structures correspond to cognitive structures. Finds evidence that scenes in the conversation MOP are topic-centered.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
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de Jong, Ton; Ferguson-Hessler, Monica G. M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
This study investigated whether good novice problem solvers have their knowledge arranged around problem types to a greater extent than poor problem solvers have. Twelve problem types (see appendix) were distinguished according to underlying physics principles and 65 knowledge elements were printed on cards for university students to sort.…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Correlation
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Stanners, Robert F.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
This study was concerned with assessing knowledge of concept interrelationships. Comparisons were made between performance on the concept comparison task (making a comparative judgment in the form of a rating on each pair of a set of concept labels) and essay test performance. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods
Brewer, William F.; Pani, John R. – 1984
The four sections of this paper provide an analysis of the structure of human memory. The first section, intended to provide a clear example of personal memory, examines a hypothetical episode in the life of an undergraduate student, and shows how one episode can give rise to three different forms of memory: personal, semantic, and rote…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Eidetic Imagery
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Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
This article presents a new method of inferring students' cognitive structures and their development. A modification of Reitman and Rueter's "ordered tree technique," the method generates a structure that displays important relationships assumed to be in a student's memory about concepts taken from a specific field of study. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
Nash, Michael R. – Scientific American, 2001
Provides information about hypnosis. Uses research data to define hypnosis, discuss the relationship between hypnosis and memory, and present some possible benefits. Includes a chart with some common misconceptions about hypnosis and the corresponding true statement. (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Karabenick, Stuart A.; LeBlanc, Daniel – 1985
Evidence points to a pervasive tendency for persons to behave to maintain their existing cognitive structures. One strategy by which this self-verification is made more probable involves information processing. Through attention, encoding and retrieval, and the interpretation of events, persons process information so that self-confirmatory…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Higher Education
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Jakobovits, Leon A.; Nahl-Jakobovits, Diane – College and Research Libraries, 1990
Presents a taxonomy and a rationale for measuring three domains of online search competence--affective, cognitive, and sensorimotor. Implications for bibliographic instruction are explored, including the desirability of teaching users affective skills that will permit them to acquire the complex cognitive skills required to conduct more…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Affective Measures, Classification, Cognitive Structures
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Miller, Raymond B.; McCown, Rick R. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1986
Two experiments were conducted to test competing explanations of the levels effect in memory for text. In both experiments subjects (college students) read paragraphs in which the height of target propositions was held constant while the amount of target elaboration differed across versions of the paragraphs. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Higher Education
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Bahar, Mehmet; Hansell, Mike H. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 2000
Explores the relationship between three psychological factors (1) field dependence/field independence; (2) convergent/divergent dimensions of cognitive styles; and (3) working memory capacity and their effect on word association test responses for biological concepts, as well as grid questions. States the research study was completed in three…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
Kokoski, Teresa M.; Housner, Lynn Dale – 1994
The present study was an exploratory study of the content-specific knowledge structures of three teacher educators (two in math and one in science). Pathfinder, a method for eliciting associative memory networks, was used to describe the knowledge structures of the teacher educators. Pathfinder was also used to determine changes in knowledge…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algorithms, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education
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Waters, Harriet Salatas; Hou, Fung-Ting – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Two experiments look at factors influencing the ways children construct an abstract representation of story structure that contains the characteristics described by story grammars. (RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, College Students
Schmidt, Henk G.; Boshuizen, Henny P. A. – 1990
A study investigated the known phenomenon of "intermediate effect" in which medical students with an intermediate amount of knowledge and experience demonstrate higher amounts of recall of the text of a medical case than either experienced clinicians or novices. In this study the amount of activation of prior knowledge was controlled by…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Structures, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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