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Campitelli, Guillermo; Macbeth, Guillermo; Ospina, Raydonal; Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
We present three strategies to replace the null hypothesis statistical significance testing approach in psychological research: (1) visual representation of cognitive processes and predictions, (2) visual representation of data distributions and choice of the appropriate distribution for analysis, and (3) model comparison. The three strategies…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Hypothesis Testing, Psychology, Social Science Research
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Colonius, Hans – Psychological Review, 1990
A new theoretical analysis of the stop-signal model is proposed. Within the concepts of crude- and net-hazard functions, the nonobservable control-latency distribution can be estimated from observable reaction times. This result allows a test of the Logan and Cowan model (1984) without simplifying assumptions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Estimation (Mathematics), Models, Observation
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Dillon, J. T. – Instructional Science, 1983
Briefly reviews psycholinguistic research, describes six categories of utterance, and reports on research into the relationship between level of thought and length of speech. Results indicate that both teachers and students take successively longer to express higher-cognitive types of utterances. (EAO)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Language Patterns
Rogoff, Barbara; Gardner, William P. – 1981
In this study four research strategies used in previous studies of the socialization of cognitive skills were first contrasted and then assessed in terms of five criteria. (The data base for this study was 32 videotapes of mothers preparing their 7- or 9-year-old children to take a memory test.) The four strategies (frequency coding, fine-grained…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis