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When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children's Astronomy Knowledge
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Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers
Inference of One's Attitude from Behavior Recalled under Linguistically Manipulated Cognitive Sets
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Salancik, J. R. – Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1974
The present experiment attempts to manipulate the saliency of subjects' recollection of their behavior by giving them a task to do which requires them to generate cognitions resulting in one of two sets of cognitive associations. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Development, Cognitive Processes, Memory
Semantic Integration of Verbal Information Into a Visual Memory
Loftus, Elizabeth F.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1978
1,242 subjects, in five experiments plus a pilot study, saw a series of slides depicting a single auto-pedestrian accident. These experiments investigate how information supplied after an event influences a witness's memory for that event. Results suggest that information supplied a witness after an event, whether inconsistent or misleading, is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Illustrations