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Schmidt, Henk G.; Mamede, Silvia – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020
In this article, the contributions of cognitive psychology to research and development of medical education are assessed. The cognitive psychology of learning consists of activation of prior knowledge while processing new information and elaboration on the resulting new knowledge to facilitate storing in long-term memory. This process is limited…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Medical Education, Educational Research, Educational Change
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Humes, Larry E.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study, involving 24 young and elderly normal-hearing adults, addressed the effects of aging on auditory serial-recall performance for natural and synthetic words. Serial recall of monosyllabic words was not affected by age per se or by rate of presentation, but word difficulty affected recall for both groups. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception