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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Processing styles."”.
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Mood as information: Affective cues for cognitive processing styles
… and negative induced mood states on cognitive processing style was examined, using the mood as information hypothesis (Clore, Schwarz, & Conway, 1994; Schwarz & Clore, 1983, 1988) as a theoretical framework. Most theories that attempt to explain mood effects see mood as interfering with …
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Assessment of instructional methodologies and student information processing styles in a terrorism preparedness course
… The purpose of the research was to determine if processing styles based instruction improved learning. The objectives of the study were to: 1) Describe participant demographics: a) age, b) gender, c) credit hours, d) field of study; and e) preferred Strategic Information Processing Style (SIPS); …
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Course-triggered Identity Exploration, Motivation, and Success among Community College Students
… of motivational orientations, identity processing styles, and course-triggered identity exploration among community college students, the relation of these orientations/processing styles/exploratory actions to one another and to students’ academic outcomes, and to attempt to promote …
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Developing/testing a new approach for assessing rapid visual identification of hematological cells using principles of visual cognition: a health science education study
… methods to categorize the general cognitive processing styles used by novices/experts as either analytical or similarity-based. Cognitive processing styles were compared across the 2 levels of expertise as well as across exam formats. Statistical analyses did suggest that expert performance …
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Reliability and validity of the Brief Remote Elkins Alldredge Test of Hypnotizability (BREATH).
… measures included cognitive expectancy, empathy, processing styles, and religious strength. The BREATH had a high, significant correlation with the EHS-CF (r = .629, p < .001), and good internal consistency. Hypnotizability levels were also normally distributed across participants. Therefore, …
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The effects of multitasking and mood on ad memory: in the case of a competitive ad context
… how mood triggered holistic and analytic processing styles, and how processing style interacted with multitasking to influence ad memory. However, no previous study had examined these interactive effects in a competitive ad context. The results showed that, while media multitasking had a …
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Cognitive Processes in Second Language Reading (Orthography, Cognition, Bilingualism)
… (L1) orthographic structures on cognitive processing in second language (L2) reading. More specifically, two aspects of L1 orthographic effects were examined: (a) the effects of the basic unit of representation on acoustic coding strategies, and (b) the effects of representational …
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Do Dilemmas on a Moral Judgment task Elicit Feeling States Known to Affect Information Processing?
… (i.e., joy, anger) lead to different information processing styles (Aspinwall, 1998; Nabi, 2003). Skoe, Eisenberg, and Cumberland (2002) found evidence that the feeling states of anger and sympathy are present in moral judgment tasks. Unfortunately, aside from anger, Skoe et al. (2002) primarily …
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Tailoring Messages within the Stages of Change
… such as behavior salience and information processing styles, are discussed. Overall, support is found for the use of tailoring messages to create behavior change.
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Can training paradigms enhance global processing style in people with Asperger Syndrome? A randomised experiment
… 1994) has been developed to explain the local processing bias observed in people with autism. The two aims of the thesis are: 1) to investigate whether adults with Asperger syndrome have a local processing bias, and 2) to investigate whether a local processing bias can be modified for people …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… framework; smaller differences in perceptual processing can snowball into tangible larger differences in complex and dynamic social situations (Benson, Castelhano, Howard, Latif & Rayner, 2016; Minshew & Goldstein, 1998). For example, individuals with ASD have a greater difficulty with tasks …
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Ageism and psychological well-being in older adults
… well-being, 2) at least one identity processing style would be associated with declines in psychological well-being, and 3) participants’ experience of ageism and favored identity processing style would be associated with different outcomes for psychological well-being. Results …
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Investigating the processing style account of the effects of Naval processing on face recognition performance
Engaging in Navon processing prior to face recognition influences recognition performance (Macrae & Lewis, 2002; Perfect, 2003; Weston & Perfect, 2005). Past research has shown that global Navon processing can improve face recognition accuracy whereas local Navon processing impairs it. One …
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The time course of sentence interpretation
The investigation of Shallow Processing, also known as Underspecification, and ‘Good Enough’ processing, is a relatively new branch of psycholinguistics. A growing body of evidence within this field indicates that, in some cases, the comprehension system will fail to build or retain a fully …
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Experimental modification of appraisal atyle in a depression vulnerable sample : the benefits of seeing the big picture
… depression is caused by biases in information processing. Thus, to address depression vulnerability, it is essential to consider information processing styles that may be beneficial. One such processing style is a type of appraisal termed big picture thinking. Big picture thinking involves …
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Effective framing strategies for service advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
… as mediated effects via the specific information processing styles triggered. This thesis is divided into three papers, each of which work towards improving our currently impoverished understanding of the effectiveness of different framing strategies for services. The first paper is a literature …
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Effective framing strategies for services advertising: The impact of narrative, rhetorical tropes and argument on consumer response across different service categories
… as mediated effects via the specific information processing styles triggered. This thesis is divided into three papers, each of which work towards improving our currently impoverished understanding of the effectiveness of different framing strategies for services. The first paper is a literature …
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The relationship between successive, simultaneous, and planning processes and the solution of metaphors, and achievement in sixth-grade students.
… metropolitan schools. A battery of information processing tasks based on previous research with the Luria-Das model was administered to 191 6th grade students, approximately half of whom were Anglo and half of whom were Hispanic. In addition, the Metaphoric Triads Task (MTT), a measure of …
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The Impact of Early Life Adversity on Neural Reward Reactivity in Early Childhood
… examined the proximal impact of ELA on reward processing in early childhood, prior to periods of enhanced risk for psychopathology onset. Conceptual models suggest that different forms of ELA may differentially impact neural reactivity, and indeed, studies find that exposure to deprivation, …
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Using a mixed methods sequential explanatory approach to identify the roles of social and cognitive factors in the development and maintenance of cancer-related PTSD in cancer survivors.
… analysis of the role of emotion schemas and processing styles and how they predict adaptation to stress in a sample of students (n=24). Phase 2 was conducted to find follow-up explanations for Phase 1 results. Study 4 (Phase 2) consisted of two clinical case studies from the PTSD Clinic – one …
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