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Carvalho, Paulo F.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The sequence of study influences how we learn. Previous research has identified different sequences as potentially beneficial for learning in different contexts and with different materials. Here we investigate the mechanisms involved in inductive category learning that give rise to these sequencing effects. Across 3 experiments we show evidence…
Descriptors: Classification, Sequential Approach, Learning, Cognitive Processes
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Vogel, Tobias; Carr, Evan W.; Davis, Tyler; Winkielman, Piotr – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Stimuli that capture the central tendency of presented exemplars are often preferred--a phenomenon also known as the classic beauty-in-averageness effect. However, recent studies have shown that this effect can reverse under certain conditions. We propose that a key variable for such ugliness-in-averageness effects is the category structure of the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Attraction, Preferences, Stimuli, Experiments
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Aguirre, Roberto; Santiago, Julio – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2017
Current evidence provides support for the idea that time is mentally represented by spatial means, i.e., a left-right mental timeline. However, available studies have tested only factual events, i.e., those which have occurred in the past or can be predicted to occur in the future. In the present study we tested whether past and future potential…
Descriptors: Time, Spatial Ability, Classification, Evaluative Thinking
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Schuler, Kathryn D.; Reeder, Patricia A.; Newport, Elissa L.; Aslin, Richard N. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Successful language acquisition hinges on organizing individual words into grammatical categories and learning the relationships between them, but the method by which children accomplish this task has been debated in the literature. One proposal is that learners use the shared distributional contexts in which words appear as a cue to their…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Grammar, Classification, Word Frequency
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Konstantinidis-Pereira, Alicja – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
This paper summarises a new method of grouping postgraduate taught (PGT) courses introduced at Oxford Brookes University as a part of a Portfolio Review. Instead of classifying courses by subject, the new cluster approach uses statistical methods to group the courses based on factors including flexibility of study options, level of specialisation,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Portfolios (Background Materials), Statistical Analysis, Classification
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Hunt, R. Reed; Smith, Rebekah E.; Toth, Jeffrey P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The experiments reported here were designed to replicate and extend McCabe, Roediger, and Karpicke's (2011) finding that retrieval in category cued recall involves both controlled and automatic processes. The extension entailed identifying whether distinctive encoding affected 1 or both of these 2 processes. The first experiment successfully…
Descriptors: Cues, Recall (Psychology), Memory, Experimental Psychology
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Sérandour, Guillaume; Illanes, Alfredo; Maturana, Jorge; Cádiz, Janet – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Assessment is a notorious source of preoccupation for faculty and university governing bodies, especially when an institution initiates curricular reforms which shift the programme learning outcomes for knowledge to competencies. One obstacle to acceptance arises from a culture of quantitative assessment (often represented by a single mark), which…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Competency Based Education, Arithmetic, Statistical Analysis
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de Wit, Bianca; Kinoshita, Sachiko – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Semantic priming effects are popularly explained in terms of an automatic spreading activation process, according to which the activation of a node in a semantic network spreads automatically to interconnected nodes, preactivating a semantically related word. It is expected from this account that semantic priming effects should be routinely…
Descriptors: Priming, Semantics, Language Processing, Classification
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Sturz, Bradley R.; Bell, Z. Kade; Bodily, Kent D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
During spatial reorientation, the use of local geometric cues (e.g., corner angles) and global geometric cues (e.g., principal axis) is differentially influenced by enclosure size. Local geometric cues exert more influence in large enclosures compared to small enclosures, whereas the use of global geometric cues is not influenced by changes in…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Comparative Analysis, Testing, Classification
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Soro, Jerônimo C.; Ferreira, Mário B.; Semin, Gün R.; Mata, André; Carneiro, Paula – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Three experiments were designed to test whether experimentally created ad hoc associative networks evoke false memories. We used the DRM (Deese, Roediger, McDermott) paradigm with lists of ad hoc categories composed of exemplars aggregated toward specific goals (e.g., going for a picnic) that do not share any consistent set of features. Experiment…
Descriptors: Experiments, Memory, Association (Psychology), Word Recognition
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Scott, Richard I.; Smith, Patricia J. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
As the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) celebrates its fiftieth year, the organization has an excellent opportunity to reflect on how honors education has spread during its history. Tracking growth in the number of institutions delivering honors education outside of its membership has not been a priority for NCHC or for researchers in…
Descriptors: Demography, Honors Curriculum, Institutional Characteristics, Diversity (Institutional)
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Ainsa, Patricia; Olivarez, Arturo – Education, 2017
Subjects were undergraduate online learners (Hispanic females) who responded to and requested to participate in mentoring at the University of Texas at El Paso, a border university located within two blocks of Mexico. Many requests for help came from the pre-service teachers who lacked confidence, were fearful, feeling isolated and stressed taking…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Undergraduate Students, Females, Hispanic American Students
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Grimaldi, Phillip J.; Poston, Laurel; Karpicke, Jeffrey D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Concept mapping has become a popular learning tool. However, the processes underlying the task are poorly understood. In the present study, we examined the effect of creating a concept map on the processing of item-specific information. In 2 experiments, subjects learned categorized or ad hoc word lists by making pleasantness ratings, sorting…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Cognitive Processes, Word Lists, Classification
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Demir, Ergul – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: The answer-copying tendency has the potential to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions of statistical detection techniques. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool as a scale in order to observe the tendency of university students' copying of answers. Also, it is aimed to provide…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Test Construction, Student Behavior
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dos Santos, Regina Antunes Teixeira; Gerling, Cristina Capparelli; de Bortoli, Álvaro Luiz – Music Education Research, 2017
A short piano piece was prepared by undergraduate and graduate piano students (N = 15) without guidance from their piano teachers. Temporal parameters were analyzed in several time frames, from a phrase-to-phrase level to an interonset interval. At a macro level, local tempo was shown to be a crucial parameter that divided the students into two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Musical Instruments, Music Education, Graduate Students
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