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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"concreteness"”.
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Levels of Concreteness in Encounter-Groups
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Are jurors persuaded by the "concreteness of truth?" : the impact of eyewitness concreteness, juror instructions, and visualization on juror decision making.
… the impact of eyewitness use of linguistic concreteness on juror decision making. Mock jurors read a summary of an ambiguous criminal case that included a concrete or abstract version of an eyewitness's testimony. When jurors received only these materials (Experiment 1), those who received …
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Factor analytic study of semantic differentiel ratings by bilinguals
… sixty-five concepts varying on the abstractness-concreteness continuum were rated on 18 scales by 100 Ss. Profiles of mean scale values for each concept, factor scores and the semantic structure are presented. Factor sets for subgroups, compounds and coordinates, were obtained and the similarity …
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"What does ""it"" mean anyway? Examining the time course of semantic activation in reference resolution"
… We examined this hypothesis by manipulating the concreteness of a noun antecedent and assessing whether an Event Related Potential (ERP) concreteness effect was elicited at a downstream pronoun. We observed a robust concreteness effect at the noun, but no evidence of a concreteness effect at the …
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Rumination and psychological treatments for depression
… depressive rumination and that it increases concreteness of thinking. However, these mechanisms need not be mutually exclusive. The empirical paper reports on an experiment that explored the relationship between depressive rumination and concreteness of thinking. It was hoped that the results …
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Money, beer, and toys : essays on consumer decision making
Essay 1: Shopping Goals, Goal Concreteness, and Conditional Promotions. We propose a two-stage model to describe the increasing concreteness of consumers' goals during the shopping process, testing the model through a series of field experiments at a convenience store. Using a number of different …
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Out of Action? – Re-evaluating Methodological Challenges in Embodied Semantics Research
… semantic psycholinguistic variables such as concreteness and valence have frequently been explained through the embodied grounding of semantic representations. This dissertation presents a series of challenges to apparent certainties: Whereas the theoretical discussion emphasises the need to …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… programs. Among them, this study examines the concreteness of song lyrics using trend analysis. Second, on the contrary to the quantitative dimensions, the qualitative dimensions refer to a deeper level of lyric complexity that requires attentive readers' comprehension and external knowledge. …
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A New Eye On Semantics: Probing the Spatiotemporal Brain Dynamics Underlying Natural Reading
… I found additive effects of predictability and concreteness on early reading time measures, paralleling previous results on the relationship between predictability and frequency. An analysis on a larger and freely available corpus produced compatible results. For the first time, I performed a …
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The keyword method: a study of vocabulary acquisition in fifth grade
… to be an effective teaching tool. It increases concreteness and meaningfulness of newly obtained information, and the Keyword Method connects recently learned information to prior knowledge which has already been stored. On the other hand, there are still limitations with using the Keyword …
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A high-order Legendre-WENO numerical scheme for the non-conservative kernel density equations modeling particle-laden flows
… by a sum of kernel density functions. For concreteness in this work, Gaussian kernel density functions are used in approximating the particle distribution. The resulting kernel density equations form a non-conservative, hyperbolic system of PDE’s. The basic numerical scheme is a Roe method …
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Influence of sketch detail in design prompts on design exploration
… three shapes, with varying degrees of detail and concreteness, were shown to respondents at random. The respondents were asked to sketch designs for a lemon squeezer based on the inspirational shape they were shown. The concepts were then grouped by to the inspirational shape they were based on. …
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… strength of the variables of semantic distance, concreteness/abstractness, polysemy, phonological distance, number of syllables, number of phonemes, number of letters, part of speech (POS), English Frequency, and frequency in Japanese in relation to accurate semantic knowledge. The participants …
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Involuntary retrieval from autobiographical memory and the nature of cues
… than abstract verbal cues, showing that a clear concreteness effect was found when retrieval is involuntary. To explore the role of additional visual details and the distinctiveness of the items in a visual cue in triggering involuntary autobiographical memories, Experiment 5 was conducted. We …
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An Einstellung test correlation with Milgram's word meaning test
… thought to measure rigidity in personality and concreteness in cognition. Therefore, a specific population considered high in these human factors is chosen for this study. Although some would say that such a population would tend to bias this present study by producing a high correlation, the …
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Bridging the gap between learning and memory
… rule-set involving the frequency and the concreteness of the words. Participants were asked either to identify words seen on the study list or to identify rule-consistent words. Across a variety of learning conditions signal-detection analyses revealed that participants used both the …
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The Beauty of Rapport: Reading Three Odes by John Keats
… through certain prosodic techniques, such as concreteness of language and a stationing technique that I call "placement.” I conclude that Keats's ability to establish rapport is a result of innate qualities that he worked to develop, and that these three odes have the power to engage the …
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery
… in many programs for slow learners, in their concreteness, in their freedom from constraints such as standardized testing, and in their use of inquiry methods, were reported as beneficial to these students and potentially to other students as well. When similar methods were used in …
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