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Schlottmann, Anne; Harman, Rachel M.; Paine, Julie – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2012
Under the normative Expected Value (EV) model, multiple outcomes are additive, but in everyday worth judgement intuitive averaging prevails. Young children also use averaging in EV judgements, leading to a disordinal, crossover violation of utility when children average the part worths of simple gambles involving independent events (Schlottmann,…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Models, Children, Age Differences
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Wallot, Sebastian; O'Brien, Beth A.; Haussmann, Anna; Kloos, Heidi; Lyby, Marlene S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Reading speed is commonly used as an index of reading fluency. However, reading speed is not a consistent predictor of text comprehension, when speed and comprehension are measured on the same text within the same reader. This might be due to the somewhat ambiguous nature of reading speed, which is sometimes regarded as a feature of the reading…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2020, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic. Modern…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology