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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"massed"”.
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Massed vs. spaced experiences in personal growth groups
… of this research was to compare the effects of massed or marathon group experiences upon personal growth with the effects of spaced group experiences upon personal growth, The between group comparison was tested in terms of fourteen null hypotheses pertaining to the fourteen subscales of the …
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Spaced Versus Massed Scheduling of Music Instruction of First and Second Grade Children
… the effects of spaced scheduling versus massed scheduling on singing skills, music achievement scores, and attitude towards music of first and second grade students.
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Investigating the effect of spaced versus massed practice on vocabulary retention in the EFL classroom
… relative effectiveness of spaced practice and massed practice on vocabulary learning in authentic EFL classroom settings at tertiary level. This thesis examined the difference in initial learning and longer-term retention between massed and spaced practice at four strength levels of knowledge …
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Effects of Equal Periods of Massed Exposure versus Distributed Exposure to Systematic Exercises on the Physical Fitness of Fifth and Sixth Grade Boys
It was the intent of this study to investigate the effect of varied proportions of physical exercise equated in type and duration, on two equated groups of fifth and sixth grade boys.
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A Computer-assisted Career Guidance Evaluation
… (c) comparing two intervention interval times, massed vs. spaced; and (d) comparing variables of gender and ethnicity. The theoretical lens for this investigation included: (a) Career Development Theory; (b) Social Cognitive Theory; (c) Diffusion Theory; and (d) Cognitive Information Processing …
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Cross Modal Ranschburg Effects: Examining Within-Sequence Repetitions for Visual-Verbal, Non-Verbal-Visual, and Tactile Stimuli.
… items that are adjacent in the sequence (massed repetitions, e.g. 1RR3456). This effect is well researched within the verbal modality of working memory; however, no research has been conducted investigating presence of the phenomena cross-modally. The current research aimed to establish …
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Instructional Strategies for Scenario-Based Training of Human Behavior Cue Analysis with Robot-Aided Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
… assessed in this experiment, Highlighting and Massed Exposure, have shown to improve attentional weighting, visual search, and pattern recognition skills, which are critical for successful behavior cue analysis. Training effectiveness was evaluated by analyzing the impact of the instructional …
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The effect of mental practice immediately prior to performance on the acquisition of a motor skill
… a reading task, an attentional focus task, or massed practice. Subjects then performed trial 3. Then 52 subjects transferred to the nonpreferred hand for trials 4 and 5. The remaining subjects continued to trace with the preferred hand for trials 4 and 5. Subjects in the mental practice group …
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The Interaction Between Learning Goal Orientation and Differentially Distributed -Practice Training Designs in Labor Education
… different labor education courses, three in the massed practice condition, and three in the distributed practice condition. Participants first completed pre-training assessments of cognitive ability, learning and performance goal orientation, and task-specific self-efficacy. After the training, …
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Responses to Reflection in Two Invertebrate Species
… to be altered. Crayfish were treated to either massed or spaced training fights prior to reflection testing. The results show that subordinate crayfish treated to spaced training display a response typical of subordinate crayfish but subordinate crayfish treated to massed training exhibit a …
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Training distribution and the acquisition of maximal isometric elbow flexion strength
… and randomly assigned to one of two groups. The massed group (n=13) completed 15 maximal isometric elbow flexion strength trials in one session, while the distributed group (n=13) performed five such contractions on three successive days. After a two-week and three month rest interval, both …
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Some Assembly Required
… but is refined to a high level to appear massed produced. The sculptures are glazed in two different methods to mimic everyday plastics and precious metals.The glazes are used to heighten the viewer’s interest and desire for the objects, allowing the art to become highly consumable.</p>
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STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SKILLS-BASED TECHNOLOGY COURSES DELIVERED THROUGH DIFFERENT SCHEDULING FORMATS
… to take only one course at a time, thus a massed practice model, in a compressed time format that presented the contents of the entire course in 18 instructional days. Student academic performance was measured by a subset of equivalent posttest questions that were common to both scheduling …
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STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SKILLS-BASED TECHNOLOGY COURSES DELIVERED THROUGH DIFFERENT SCHEDULING FORMATS
… to take only one course at a time, thus a massed practice model, in a compressed time format that presented the contents of the entire course in 18 instructional days. Student academic performance was measured by a subset of equivalent posttest questions that were common to both scheduling …
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The Inadequacy of Intracranial Stimulation to the Posterior Hypothalamus to Serve as a Reinforcer for Maze Learning in the Rat
… The subjects learned for food over 5 days of 10 massed trials per day, but failed to show learning for ICS either within sessions or over days. There was no difference in learning between rats with high bar press rates and those with low rates in either group.
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Time-Setting Generalization Assessment of Mentally Retarded Adults' Acquired Self-Control in the Preparation of Complex Meals After Withdrawal of Training Components and Trainers
… color cues were used in combination with massed trial training outside the operant chain to increase the probability that one subject would independently set a timer, and the temperature control dials on her stove. Next, a partial-sequential withdrawal of training package components and …
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Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
… instruments performs a state-change so it is the massed sound itself that changes over the course of five seconds, or thirty seconds, or a minute. And finally in the trajectory of the piece as a whole from a state of relative complexity to a state of relative simplicity, with all points in between.
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Olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preference in the male rat : implications for the role of learning in sexual partner preferences
… the rate of extinction was faster following massed training than distributed training. Analysis of the components of copulation required to support the development of CEP revealed that ejaculation was necessary, but not sufficient to support CEP. Rather CEP development is critically dependent …
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Huddled Masses: Death and Citizenship in New York City
… survive death? At Hart Island, New York City’s ‘massed’ grave cemetery for its unclaimed, unknown, and poor, the dead have historically been excluded from the realm of ordinary posthumous citizenship expected by their fellow New Yorkers. However, activists, relatives, and politicians are …
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