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Peer reviewedMeyer, David E.; And Others – Psychological Review, 1988
Theoretical/empirical foundations on which reaction times are measured and interpreted are discussed. Models of human information processing are reviewed. A hybrid procedure and analytical framework are introduced, using a speed-accuracy decomposition technique to analyze the intermediate products of rapid mental processes. Results invalidate many…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFrederiksen, Carl H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
An experimental context designed to directly affect discourse processing by inducing subjects to generate inferences involving text content was compared to a context in which subjects simply listened to and recalled the content of a text. Context did effect the amount of inferred and overgeneralized semantic information in subjects' text recalls.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Higher Education, Information Processing
Download full textCollins, Allan M. – 1973
The purposes of this study were to determine the nature of human semantic memory and to obtain knowledge usable in the future development of computer systems that can converse with people. The work was based on a computer model which is designed to comprehend English text, relating the text to information stored in a semantic data base that is…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Decision Making
Carey, Robert F.; Smith, Sharon L. – 1978
Overviews of schema theory, which focuses on the cognitive operations engaged in by the reader, and discourse analysis, which focuses on structural characteristics of the text itself, are presented in this paper. The first section explains the notion of cognitive schemata (patterns of expectations that are applied to incoming information) and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Pearson, Charls; Slamecka, Vladimir – 1976
This study is designed to help provide an understanding of the role semiosis plays in information processes. The object of study is the structure of various types of signs, and a determination of the relationship between sign structure and information properties. A review of the theory of sign structure is followed by an examination of syntactic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education
Collins, Allan; And Others – 1974
An analysis was made of the strategies by which tutors adapt their teaching to individual students; the objective was to synthesize these strategies in a computer system called SCHOLAR. Tape recordings of dialogues between tutors and students about South American geography were made to discover the strategies used by tutors. Since SCHOLAR is a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
