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McCann, C. Douglas – 1983
Cognitive psychologists believe that knowledge is multifaceted and that people process more than just semantic content from a stimulus array. To investigate the implications of recall and impression formation processing objectives on the representation of serial order in memory and judgment, subjects participated in two recall and impression…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Evaluative Thinking, Memory
Peer reviewedDean, Anne L.; Mollaison, Myrna – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Examines children's understanding of what variables and relations are important in problem structures, and their use of these variables and relations in problem solving. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedPedersen, Jon; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1988
Reports the results of two experiments that examined the relative effects of questions requiring decisions, statements providing the decision information to the students, questions not requiring decisions, and control procedures on student's memory for chemistry text reading materials. Discusses results in terms of an elaboration perspective on…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Decision Making, Evaluative Thinking, High Schools
