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Showing 1 to 20 of 670 for “"cognitive psychology"”.
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Issues in the foundations of cognitive psychology
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Redesigning Airport Diagrams with Principles of Cognitive Psychology
… airport diagrams to incorporate principles of cognitive psychology. The redesigned airport diagrams included decreasing extra information, increasing overall size, and adding color. The study measured the participant’s situational awareness and deviations throughout six simulated taxiing tasks. …
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Augmenting Autobiographical Memory: An Approach Based on Cognitive Psychology
… autobiographical memory systems derived from Cognitive Psychology research into human memory – a perspective missing from prior work. Based on these recommendations, a conceptual design of an augmented autobiographical memory system is developed that aims to support users in retrieving cues …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Legacy to Cognitive Psychology: Concepts as Participatory
… context, makes him a key figure in contemporary cognitive psychology. While Wittgenstein’s interest in psychology began between 1934-1936 when he lectured on private experience and sense data, his contributions to the field of psychology continued up until his death in 1951. Unknown to …
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Misinformation as Material: Towards the use of cognitive psychology as a research tool for artists
… an elementary school in Japan with a course in cognitive psychology. In this country you can find art school heads of department who don’t even know that such a subject exists.” Artist and writer Simon Bill. Facebook post made on 7th July 2022 This written contribution towards a PhD by …
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Human aspects of scheduling : a case study
… contrasting it to both normative OR theory and Cognitive Psychology theory. Relevant literature in OR, scheduling and psychology is reviewed, and gaps in theory are pointed out, calling for observation of real-life scheduling and for modeling of the cognitive processes underlying such …
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"""Where will we talk about these things next year, when we're not in this class anymore?"": Exploring the role of community in teacher education"
… and research in the areas of sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, whole language, discourse analysis, postmodernism, interpretive interactionism, phenomenology, and my own teaching practice."
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How informants report about interorganizational relationships
"This dissertation applies cognitive psychology perspectives to investigate how organizational informants report about interorganizational relationships within an industrial channel of distribution. There is currently a growing interest among both practitioners and scholars in understanding the …
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Bayesian modeling of manner and path psychological data
… has long been a key question for both AI and cognitive science. It is hypothesized that a person acquires a bias to favor the characteristics of their native language, in order to aid word learning. Other hypothesized aids are syntactic bootstrapping, in which the learner assumes that the …
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A study of novice programmer performance and programming pedagogy.
… to enable the primary concepts of programming cognitive psychology and their relationships to be established, in a systematic and formal manner. To further investigate novice programmer behaviour, two sub-studies were conducted into programming performance and ability. The first sub-study was a …
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Institutional Trust and Interpersonal Interaction: A Contact Theory Approach
… Hypothesis—a concept derived from the field of cognitive psychology—as a theoretical framework for interpreting interpersonal interactions between citizens and government representatives at the local level of government. It employs an ethnographic approach, drawing on data derived from …
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An investigation of the cognitive foundation underlying the rule-space model
… study is to combine the theories and methods in cognitive psychology with the practices in psychometrics to investigate the cognitive foundations underlying K. Tatsuoka's rule-space model. Rule space is a statistical method for classifying students' test item responses into a set of attribute …
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On the flexible nature of the relationship between attention and active memory representations
… two of the most commonly studied constructs in cognitive psychology, our understanding of how active memory representations interact with attention remains highly contentious. One of the primary reasons for this continued debate has been a reliance on artificially dichotomizing the roles these …
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Gestures and mental models: A triple coding hypothesis
… learning has become a topic of interest in both cognitive and educational psychology. Some researchers have speculated that gestures inherently communicate information that is not provided in purely verbal communication, and that this supplemental information can lead to more thorough mental …
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Strategies for Identifying the Main Idea of Expository Passages: An Experimental Study
… These interventions were based upon research in cognitive psychology and task analysis, and were implemented via a computer-assisted instruction program. The study randomly assigned students to treatments in a 2 x 2 factorial design. The Strategy Training intervention taught students strategies …
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eLearning adoption in Eastern and Southern African higher education institutions
… from various disciplines, including social psychology, information systems, anthropology, sociology, education, communication, marketing, management, geography, economics and cognitive psychology. These frameworks for eLearning adoption in Higher Education are synergised and contextualised …
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The role of interference in metacognitive monitoring
Recent advancements in neuropsychology have initiated theoretical advancements in cognitive psychology, particularly concerning the constructs of interference and metacognition. These constructs share similar cognitive functioning and this study investigated the relationship between them. It was …
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Advertising distractor devaluation under perceptual and cognitive load
… is named “distractor devaluation” in both cognitive psychology (Fenske & Raymond, 2006) and advertising research (Duff & Faber, 2011). Recent advertising research demonstrates that when ads are embedded beside a central task, people tend to ignore them when focusing on the task. We examined …
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8 Readers reading: The intertextual links of able readers using multiple passages
… to 3 hour session. Three scholarly paths--cognitive psychology, semiotics, and literary theory--were used as guide posts for constructing a framework to analyze the intertextual links (i.e., the connections made among textual resources) evidenced in the students' think-aloud episodes. The …
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Depression, Volition, and Death: The Effect of Depressive Disorders on the Autonomous Choice to Forgo Medical Treatment
… tend to suggest an autonomous agent free from cognitive bias and systematic distortion (e.g., Kantian or Cartesian rational agents). Evidence is emerging from the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience that fundamentally challenge this cognitive model, demonstrating …
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