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Showing 1 to 20 of 859 for “"familiarity"”.
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Maintaining familiarity through mobile design
… a deployable device that provides a sense of familiarity and personalization. Prior to activation, the device acts as a secure and protective container for personal belongings. Once activated, it will provide a number of surfaces that allow for work, rest, display, and storage. Acting as both …
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Familiarity as a variable in anticipated communication
… respond differently as a function of their familiarity with the other person. It was predicted that a person anticipating interaction with another from a familiar ethnic background would engage a broader cognitive schema which would be reflected in the number of additional items of …
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Identifying French Compositional Styles: Subtlety Through Familiarity
… compositional traits, specifically subtlety and familiarity in rhythm and harmony. Both Fauré's <em>Berceuse</em> (1878-9) and Ravel's <em>Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Faur</em>é (1922) are representative of small form pieces written by French composers; in addition, the relationship of the two …
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Stimulus Matters: Effects of Familiarity versus Novelty
… of this project was to study the effects of familiarity and novelty on inhibitory control. Thirty-five preschoolers between two and five years of age were tested in four different versions of the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS). Performance was no different among standard, 2D-familiar, …
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MEMBER FAMILIARITY AS A PREDICTOR OF TEAM ADAPTATION
… between-subjects effects of team member familiarity on team performance and adaptation with cognitive ability and task experience as covariates. Fifty-two two-person teams, comprised of members who were either familiar or unfamiliar with each other, participated in 10 trials of an …
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The Effects of Familiarity and Persuasion on Risk Assessment
… from two separate processes: bias based on familiarity (familiarity bias) and bias as the result of influences from outside sources (persuasion bias). Research suggests that familiarity-based bias may lead to acceptance of an activity's drawbacks and a leniency of its risks.</p> <p>In …
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Remembering and knowing: exploring subjective report, familiarity, and confidence
… the influence of experimentally imposed familiarity on subjective experience. Pre-exposure of target and lure items led to impaired recognition across all experiments, but differences in subjective experience were only observed when pre-exposure was performed between-subjects (Experiment …
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Parent perceptions of familiarity and satisfaction with placement staffings
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Mental Rotation: Can Familiarity Alleviate the Effects of Complex Backgrounds?
… complex backgrounds on mental rotation. Stimulus familiarity and background familiarity were manipulated. It systematically explored how familiarizing participants to objects and complex backgrounds affects their performance on a mental rotation task involving complex backgrounds. This study had …
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Familiarity, context, and the distinction between literal and nonliteral language
Six experiments investigating the relationship of familiarity and context to the processing of metaphor are presented. Experiment 1 compares time to understand sets containing idiom or metaphor targets following 1-2 sentence contexts in four conditions: NONLITERAL, where the context was completed …
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Effects of episodic familiarity and statistical regularity On intentional forgetting
… this investigation examined how episodic familiarity and statistical regularity influence intentional forgetting using verbal and pictorial stimuli. In Experiment 1-4, some stimuli were familiarized by a preview phase before the DF phase, and memory was later assessed using an old/new …
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Judges' familiarity with learning and behavioral disabilities and dispositions imposed
… was to examine the relationship between judges’ familiarity with learning and behavioral disabilities and the dispositions they imposed. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were employed to examine the differential disposition hypothesis. A sample of juvenile judges presiding within the …
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Personality, Character Strengths, Empathy, Familiarity and the Stigmatization of Mental Illness
… Forgiveness and Mercy, and Hope), Empathy, and Familiarity with mental illness. Participants also completed measures of stigmatizing attitudes (i.e., perceived dangerousness, personal responsibility attributed, and desired social distance) associated with targets described in vignettes as having …
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Effects of Verb Familiarity on Finiteness Marking in Children with SLI
… question is to assess the hypothesis that verb familiarity influences finiteness marking accuracy. A sentence imitation task was developed to examine this hypothesis. In sentence imitation tasks, a child is asked to repeat a sentence verbatim. Sentence imitation has been proposed as an index of …
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Traumatic Familiarity: Fictions and Theories of Community in the Eighteenth Century
<p>This dissertation addresses a crisis of modern collective identity by employing a dialectic of philosophical and literary "realisms." While both philosophical and novelistic discourses are premised on twin gestures (aspiration for correspondence between representation and reality), they arrive …
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Gamifying RPI: The benefits of avatars and knowledge-induced coworker familiarity
The growth of the gamification industry has increased the use of avatar-enhanced leaderboards as a method of providing public relative performance information (RPI). This study examines the effect of representing employees as humanlike avatars in public leaderboards on employees’ effort to improve …
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Dependence of typing speed and accuracy on device type and familiarity
… devices are placed on the market, users build familiarity with and skills for their specific device model. Twelve participants were asked to complete a series of thirty-two typing tests on various laptop keyboards and mobile phones. Measurements were taken of typing speed and accuracy on …
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The impact of product familiarity on the price-perceived quality relationship
… the impact of differing degrees of buyer familiarity with the product is hypothesized to affect the extent to which price or intrinsic information is used to assess product quality. A secondary set of hypotheses posits relationships between different cues used in value perceptions and …
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Process estimates of recollection and familiarity in working memory and episodic memory
… with particular regard to the contribution of familiarity and recollection processes to both constructs. Updating measures were also included to examine the potential mediating effects of updating on the relationship between working memory and episodic memory. Measurement models of both task …
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Development of Recognition Memory: Process Dissociation of Recollection and Familiarity in Children
… and associated with contextual details) and familiarity (fast and automatic). The aim of this dissertation was to advance this debate using a cognitive developmental approach. By investigating age-related changes of recognition memory across childhood as a function of theoretically motivated …
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