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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Verbal ability"”.
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Analysing Relational Responding Skills and Verbal Ability in Children with Autism, and Typically-developing Children
… behavioural account of language identified verbal behaviour as fundamentally functional. This account of language has been the basis for effective teaching programmes for children with developmental disabilities (Sundberg & Michael, 2001). However, despite the well documented efficacy of …
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THE EFFECTS OF WORD LENGTH, WORD FREQUENCY AND WORD REPETITION IN AUDITORY MEMORY (LEXICON, VERBAL ABILITY, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS)
… that word length accounted for 10% of the variability. Word frequency accounted for 4.6% of the variance of polysyllables and 6% of the variance of monosyllables. Further, it was found that there was a frequency effect only for monosyllables under 500 msec long. Experiment IV treated word …
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Individual Differences in Verbal and Spatial Memory: The Contribution of Gender, Verbal Ability, Spatial Ability, and Sex-Role Orientation
… the degree to which reported sex differences in verbal and spatial memory performance are due to confounds between the sexes on the individual difference factors of verbal ability, spatial ability, and sex-role orientation. Specifically, college age males and females were administered …
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Verbal ability, previous practice and load on short-term memory as determiners of differences in a complex learning task: an experimental study
… and practice classify people according to broad ability dimensions but do not examine how these mental processes occur. Hunt and Lansman (1975) proposed a 'distributed memory' model of cognitive processes with emphasis on how to describe individual differences based on the assumption that each …
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Theory of mind development and executive functioning in elementary school children
The following study explored the role of verbal ability and executive functioning in theory of mind understanding in elementary school children. Scores on measures of language comprehension, verbal ability (sentence memory, and forward digit span), matrix completion, executive functioning (backward …
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The effect of immediate or delayed feedback, immediate retention test given after immediate and delayed feedback or omitted : amount of time spent with feedback, and verbal ability on long- and short-term retention of various levels of multiple-choice items and error pattern analyses
… performance on the initial test, the students' verbal ability, and the amount of time spent with feedback were used as covariates. Also investigated was the relationship of the level of the test item (recall or complex) to the students' ability to profit from immediate or delayed feedback. The …
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Gender Difference Variables Predicting Expertise in Lecture Note-taking
… included transcription fluency, working memory, verbal ability, conscientiousness, and goal orientation. The dependent variables were note quality and written recall. All procedures were group administered. Results indicated that females recorded more information in notes and recall than males. …
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Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities
… constructs such as general cognitive ability (GCA) to natural language processing outcomes such as word counts, a foundation for language-based psychological assessment of those abilities can be laid. Over 400 participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk to write …
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The Effect of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Memory Scan and Memory Span in Working Memory
… processes has been studied by many researchers. Verbal ability and intoxication with ethanol are two hypothesized influences on the efficiency of working memory processes. This study looked at these factors across two measures, memory span tasks and memory scan tasks. This study also examined the …
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Fulfilling Positive Stereotypical Expectations, Performance Boosts or Performance Decrements?
… stereotype that females are better than males at verbal ability tasks. Before arriving to the lab, participants were required to complete measures of verbal ability domain identification. Upon arrival to the lab, participants completed one trial of verbal ability items before being exposed to one …
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The relationship between aggression and communication in students with developmental disabilities
… correlation between aggression goals and verbal ability in these students. Additionally, the results found that there was no significant correlation between communication goals and verbal ability.
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The Contribution of Achievement, Pupil Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes and Classroom Interaction to Teacher Expectations
… of pupils' prior mathematics achievement, verbal ability (reading achievement), demographic and personality characteristics, family background, teacher attitudes and classroom interaction on teacher expectations and mislabelling. A model was proposed suggesting linkages between the …
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A Correlation Study of the Sixth Grade Verbal School and College Ability Test with Eighth Grade Reading Achievement
… scores of one group of children who took the verbal ability section of the sixth grade School and College Ability Test (SCAT) with the test scores of the same group of children on the eighth grade reading Sequential Test of Educational Progress (STEP) and to determine the degree of …
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Individual differences in human-computer interaction
… logical reasoning, associative memory, and verbal ability. These were studied in relation to a variety of computer-based tacks, including: (1) word processing and its component elements; (ii) the location of target words within passages of text; (iii) the navigation of networks and menus; …
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The use of self-reports and peer reports as measures of self-esteem in middle school students
… have shown academic achievement, athletic ability, and socioeconomic status to correlate with sociometric status. Sociometric measures allow teachers to gather a wealth of information about their students quickly and easily. One purpose of this study was to determine the degree of …
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The Effect of Self Reflection on Preschool Children's Empathic Understanding and Prosocial Behavior
… pretested on measures of empathic understanding, verbal ability, prosocial responsiveness and the "normativeness" of their wishes. Performance on these measures served as criterion for selection of forty-two children who served as subjects. The mean age of subjects was 4 years and 6 months. The …
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The Effects of Alcohol on Semantic Memory
… were further divided into higher and lower verbal ability groups on the basis of their raw scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised Vocabulary subtest.</p> <p>Subjects were presented with word pairs and asked to make yes/no decisions as to whether the words were physically …
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Atypicalities of social functioning in children with Williams syndrome
… was used in order to examine the nature and stability of these atypicalities across environmental settings and from different perspectives.Within the present thesis, five studies are reported. Within chapters 3, 4 and 5, SAB was examined in children with WS (aged 7-16 years) by administering an …
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Academic Performance of First-Year Students at a College of Pharmacy in East Tennessee: Models for Prediction
… 64 (Chemistry), 64 (Reading), 60 (Quantitative Ability), and 68 (Verbal Ability). The average undergraduate GPAs were 3.43 (cumulative) and 3.32 (math and science), whereas the average first-year pharmacy school GPA for the population was 3.33. Younger students tended to have higher first-year …
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