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Basso, Demis; Corradini, Giovanni; Cottini, Milvia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: According to Munsat (1965, The concept of memory. University of Michigan), a person who makes frequent prospective memory (PM) errors is considered as having a flawed character rather than a bad memory. Given that PM completes its development only in young adulthood, this bias might occur not only within social relationships but also…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Short Term Memory, Inhibition, Error Patterns
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Liben, Lynn S.; Kastens, Kim A.; Christensen, Adam E. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
To study the role of spatial concepts in science learning, 125 college students with high, medium, or low scores on a horizontality (water-level) spatial task were given information about geological strike and dip using existing educational materials. Participants mapped an outcrop's strike and dip, a rod's orientation, pointed to a distant…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Error Patterns, Spatial Ability, Teaching Methods