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Unsworth, Nash; Spillers, Gregory J.; Brewer, Gene A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
The present study tested the dual-component model of working memory capacity (WMC) by examining estimates of primary memory and secondary memory from an immediate free recall task. Participants completed multiple measures of WMC and general intellectual ability as well as multiple trials of an immediate free recall task. It was demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Memory, Individual Differences

Furukawa, James M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
High cognitive processing capacity (CPC) students were superior to low-CPC students in prose learning. Of the four learning modes--programmed instruction (PI), control, chunking study outline, and adjunct questions--PI was the most effective. Substantial CPC and performance correlations and poor long-term retention suggested that PI was not best…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Kunen, Seth; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979
The spread of encoding concept was tested visually by having subjects view pictures which varied in contour completeness. The hypothesis was supported that as contour completeness decreased, the amount of perceptual analysis and memory performance would increase. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Higher Education, Memory

Dixon, Peter; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1988
Measures of working memory capacity and measures of word knowledge were used as predictors of three measures of reading skills in 95 undergraduates. Vocabulary size and speed of accessing it were independent of word knowledge. Reading comprehension, reading speed, and text inferencing ability were independent measures of reading skill. (SLD)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inferences, Memory

Hadwin, Allyson Fiona; Kirby, John R.; Woodhouse, Rosamund A. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1999
A study of 82 Canadian college freshmen investigated working memory, verbal ability, and prior knowledge as predictors of quality of students' lecture notes, lecture summaries, and content recall. Students with higher working memory benefitted more from listening to the lecture than from listening and taking notes. Quality of summaries predicted…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes

Niaz, Mansoor – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1987
Contends that student success in introductory science courses at the college and university level depends on formal operational reasoning ability, size of working memory, and the degree of field independence. Reports the study findings related to cognitive predictor variables based on the testing of Venezuelan science majors (N=95). (ML)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Science, Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries

Haenggi, Dieter; Perfetti, Charles A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Decoding, working memory, and domain-specific prior knowledge were studied as predictors of comprehension for 48 university undergraduate students after rewriting notes, rereading notes, or rereading a text. Working memory was most important for comprehension of text-implicit information, whereas knowledge was relatively more important for…
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Sinkavich, Frank J. – 1991
The relationships between classroom performance and five possible predictor variables were studied. The ways in which these variables relate to performance in a classroom learning situation were examined, with the hypothesis that attributional style and motivation would be the best predictors of classroom performance. The variables were: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques

Wilhite, Stephen C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
A stepwise multiple regression analysis of final course grades of 184 psychology students revealed that scores on a self-assessment of memory ability were the best predictors of final course grades, followed by locus of control, and scores on the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Test. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Curriculum, College Students, Courses
Wilhite, Stephen C. – 1992
Positive relationships between student study behaviors and academic achievement were examined in this extension of a large-scale Far West Laboratory project. Participants were 196 college students drawn from 28 sections of an introductory psychology course over a 4-semester period, involving 12 instructors. Subjects' activities and allocation of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of metacognitive comprehension monitoring strategies on fourth grade students' reading comprehension and recall performance; (2) elementary school…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading achievement as it relates to child dependency, the development of phonological coding, short-term memory and associative learning, variables available in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Associative Learning, Behavior Patterns, Cloze Procedure