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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Ecological validity"”.
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The ecological validity of prospective memory experimentation
… led to translational concerns to everyday life. Validity concerns surrounding laboratory PM tasks have been raised due to the lack of relationship between PM performance and measures of strategic monitoring, which is believed to be how much attention participants dedicate to the PM task. The …
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An Analysis of the Construct-Related and Ecological Validity of the Barrow Neurological Institute Screen for Higher Cerebral Functions
… it is critical to establish its reliability and validity. The purpose of this study is to explore the construct-related and the ecological validity of the BNIS in a patient sample independent of the original patient data gathered by Prigatano. The construct-related validity of the BNIS is …
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New Learning Through Collaborative Discourse in Amnesia
… involving real-world communication, with greater ecological validity than laboratory-based tasks, surprisingly impressive learning in amnesia was observed, a finding that has significant clinical implications.
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Nonverbal and Verbal Content Behaviors in the Prediction of Interviewer Effectiveness
The present study assesses the ecological validity of previous research results which have suggested that an interviewer's nonverbal behaviors predominate over verbal content behaviors in the prediction of interviewer effectiveness ratings. In contrast to earlier investigations, the current study …
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Green exercise: Combined influence of environment and exercise to promote wellbeing
… multisensory experience, therefore lacking ecological validity. Chapter 5 investigated methodologies for controlling the exercise component, comparing wellbeing-related outcomes of indoor versus outdoor exercise. This was important because previous research had not rigorously controlled …
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How do veterans make sense of their disengagement from traditional exposure therapy and their subsequent engagement in a non-exposure based therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
… of failing to produce evidence with sufficient ecological validity. The tension that thus arises is highlighted, using the specific illustrative examples of two treatment methods for post-traumatic disorder (PTSD): Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and exposure based …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
… of actual Canadian interrogations, strengthening ecological validity of the study. Implications for jury decision making are discussed.
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The Relationship Between Neuropsychological Performance and Daily Functioning in Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
… perform activities of daily living. However, the ecological validity of most neuropsychological instruments has yet to be adequately established. The current study examined the relationship between neuropsychological test performance and functional status in 42 individuals diagnosed with …
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The Role of Social Agency in Student Learning
… is little work examining its generalizability, ecological validity, and potential for statistical mediation and moderation. In 5 experiments, these topics are examined in the laboratory as well as in a real classroom setting. Experiment 1a provides evidence for moderation of the effect of the …
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Intelligence Testing For Persons With Visual Impairments: Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment
… consistency reliability and convergent-divergent validity of a three dimensional haptic matrix completion task as a measure of non-verbal intelligence for persons with low or no vision. Sixty-six UND undergraduates completed the prototype Haptic Matrices Intelligence Assessment (HMIA) and the …
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Real Work Task Performance: The Role of Abilities, Non-Ability Traits, and Proximal Variables
The objective of this study was to develop new, ecologically valid measures of adult intelligence that are representative of tasks that adults might encounter in their everyday lives. In order to accomplish this objective, 59 undergraduate students (35 male, 24 female) completed three hands-on, …
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Measures of Executive Functioning and Their Relation to Functional Outcomes in a Sample of Youth with Attention-Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (add)
… functioning) was examined to establish their ecological and incremental validity.</p><p>A three-factor model for the TEA-Ch and a two-factor model with modifications for the BRIEF emerged as the best fitting models for each measure. Regarding ecological validity, the Behavioral Regulation …
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The attentional cost of feature-based inhibition: When ignoring distraction impairs selection
… research (Braithwaite & Humphreys, 2003) to more ecologically valid dynamic circumstances. This work reveals that the cost of feature sharing is greatly magnified when items move, compared to when items remain static. These findings implicate a flexible inhibitory weighting system, where the …
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Cognitive and motivational influences on children's social competence and social adjustment
… outcomes in a multivariate context. Further, the ecological validity of some of the measurement tools used in the field of children's social functioning were questioned and alternative methods were introduced. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that three of the four …
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Neurobehavioral mechanisms of social cognition and emotion regulation: A behavioral and functional brain imaging approach
… of emotion and cognition with increased ecological validity. These issues were investigated using a multi-method approach involving functional brain imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography) in conjunction with behavioral tasks (social evaluation, emotion …
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Towards Ecologically Valid Evaluations of Language Models
… it is important that they possess high ecological validity (Brunswik, 1955), such that experimental results generalize to real-world contexts. However, prior evaluations do not always simulate these use cases appropriately. Specifically, evaluation tasks may lack relevance to practical …
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Young Children’s Executive Functions in Context: Classroom Experiences and Measurement Approaches
… functions could be categorized by levels of ecological validity and child agency. Findings showed that children’s self-regulation and executive functions could be categorized by high and low ecological validity. However, results indicated that children did not perform differently on tasks and …
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Prenatal alcohol exposure-related reading and phonological processing deficits mediated by working memory
… This choice means those studies may lack ecological validity in that they might not have adequately captured the real-life reading difficulties experienced by individuals with PAE. Furthermore, only a handful have considered the possible mediating roles of those higher-order cognitive …
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It's in the Game: The effect of Competition and Cooperation on Anti-Social Behavior in Online Video Games
… two approaches are very useful, they lack the ecological validity of methods like field experiments. This study examined how competitiveness, teamwork, and co-operation affect anti-social behavior in video games. A 2 (competition: high vs low) x 2 (cooperation: vs no cooperation) x 2 (team: …
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Habituation and Dishabituation in the Olfactory Bulb: From Neural Responses to Behavior
… antagonist in the OB, demonstrating the ecological validity of this ACh effect. Two-photon imaging revealed that, unlike the glomerular responses, soma responses of different OB cell types can be quite different from each other during a prolonged odor presentation. These results highlight …
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