Eighty college students mentally rotated 3-D shapes while maintaining a concurrent verbal or spatial memory load to investigate how sex, native language, and college major relate to the cognitive strategies employed during mental rotation (MR). Males were significantly better than females at MR, whereas native language was not related to MR…

Clearly, imitation is linked to a variety of skill areas. As a result, children with autism and developmental delays are less likely than their typical peers to perform well in many areas of development, including play and speech. The purpose of this study was to determine if a simple, teacher-friendly strategy could be implemented that would…

The impacts that the lack of physical cues and non-verbal cues of emotional expression has on the student learning experience in text based online environments were targeted separately in this study. A questionnaire was constructed with separate items for non-verbal cues of emotional expression and cues to physical identity. The survey also…

This paper examines the effective deployment of conversational agents in virtual worlds from the perspective of researchers/practitioners in cognitive psychology, computing science, learning technologies and engineering. From a cognitive perspective, the major challenge lies in the coordination and management of the various channels of information…

Testing the hypotheses that reflective timed-essay prompts should elicit memories of meaningful experiences in students' undergraduate education, and that computer-mediated classroom experiences should be salient among those memories, a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods paints a richer, more complex picture than either…

Background: Research on social skills in physical education has shown that students' fair play behaviors remain underdeveloped unless teachers include social skills instruction into the curriculum. Fair play behaviors are learned behaviors that are specific to the context of physical education and sport, and may generalize to other settings. One…

The present study prospectively investigated early temperamental profiles and their associations with autistic symptoms in high-risk infants (N = 138) with an older sibling with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and low-risk infants (N = 73) with no family history of ASD. Children who were diagnosed with ASD at 36 months were distinguished from…

The Individually Guided Behavior (IGB) concept was designed to help autistic children and adolescents structure their time and increase independence in work skills activities. The approach is also designed to reduce specificity of performance output, helping the child or adolescent to rely on environmental rather than teacher initiated cues for…

The specificity of memories has been identified as a factor affecting reality monitoring performance. To examine the reality monitoring model of Johnson and Raye (1981) and to explore the relationship between memory specificity and reality monitoring, the amount of cognitive operations involved in processing information was manipulated for 72…

A study of the capacity of first graders to use class-inclusion hierarchies for retrieving information. Subjects were asked to recall pictures of familiar objects when given five types of word cues. (JMB)

A distinction between two classes of problems used in laboratory studies of judgment and inference phenomena is made. The distinction is relevant to both single-cue probability learning and multiple cue probability learning within the linear lens model paradigm. (Author/JKS)

Two strategies in teaching mentally retarded employees to maintain their work behavior are described: one incorporates cues produced and managed by change agents and the other actively enjoins the subject to ultimately rely upon management of his/her own behavior. The value of each approach is discussed. (Author/CL)

The study compared language-disordered and normal young children (N=49) in ability to interpret emotional meaning from vocal cues of adult speakers. Findings indicated that language-disordered children were less accurate in identifying vocal cues of emotion than were normal children, although their error pattern was not significantly different.…

Investigates the ability of 24 children ages two, three, and four to discriminate between two small object collections on the basis of numerosity and to maintain that discrimination across changes in number-related cues. Most children learned the discrimination and transferred their learning on the basis of relational cues. (Author/CI)