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Lindgren, Robb – ProQuest LLC, 2009
An extensive research literature in education and psychology demonstrates positive effects of perspective-taking on various forms of learning. Until recently, perspective-taking has been limited to the mental simulation of how someone with different beliefs, knowledge, physical location, etc., perceives an object or event. Over the last decade…
Descriptors: Photography, Videotape Recorders, Educational Technology, Training Methods
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Colombo, John; Frick, Janet E.; Gorman, Sheila A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Examined possibility that arousability as manifested in sensitization contributes to individual differences in infants' attentional profiles. Sensitization tended to occur more frequently with more complex than with less complex checkerboards. Infants showing sensitization looked longer and did not habituate as readily as infants who showed no…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention, Difficulty Level, Habituation
Turner, Philip M. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1983
Presents results of research into the relationship between two anxiety measures and performance on a visual concept acquisition task for university undergraduates. Analysis of variance indicates a significant interaction between cueing treatment and scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Further research using different populations and…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns
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McLeskey, James – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The influence of verbal and written labels on selective attention to visual materials was examined with retarded children. Under treatment conditions, retarded and normal children located an object more quickly, looked at it longer, and recognized more objects on a recognition-memory task. These results may be applied to materials development.…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS MATERIALS ON VARIOUS FACETS OF HUMAN LEARNING. APPROXIMATELY 60 UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED FOR DOCUMENTS DATING FROM 1954 TO 1966. JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND CONFERENCE PAPERS ARE LISTED. SOME SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) LEARNING PARAMETERS AND ABILITY, (2) RETENTION AND…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Bibliographies, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged