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SNARC Effects with Numerical and Non-Numerical Symbolic Comparative Judgments: Instructional and Cultural Dependencies
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Shaki, Samuel; Petrusic, William M.; Leth-Steensen, Craig – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
With English-language readers in an experiment requiring pairwise comparative judgments of the sizes of animals, the nature of the association between the magnitudes of the animal pairs and the left or right sides of response (i.e., the SNARC effect) was reversed depending on whether the participants had to choose either the smaller or the larger…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Numbers, Comparative Analysis
The Relation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to Chronic Lapses of Attention
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Pontifex, Matthew B.; Broglio, Steven P.; Drollette, Eric S.; Scudder, Mark R.; Johnson, Chris R.; O'Connor, Phillip M.; Hillman, Charles H. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2012
We assessed the extent to which failures in sustained attention were associated with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) deficits in cognitive control among college-age young adults with and without a history of sport-related concussion. Participants completed the ImPACT computer-based assessment and a modified flanker task. Results…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Mild Disabilities, Attention
Can Comparison of Contrastive Examples Facilitate Graph Understanding?
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Smith, Linsey A.; Gentner, Dedre – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The authors explore the role of comparison in improving graph fluency. The ability to use graphs fluently is crucial for STEM achievement, but graphs are challenging to interpret and produce because they often involve integration of multiple variables, continuous change in variables over time, and omission of certain details in order to highlight…
Descriptors: Graphs, Laboratories, Instructional Effectiveness, Cognitive Processes
CREATIVE THINKING IN ART STUDENTS--AN EXPLORATORY STUDY.
CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, MIHALY; GETZELS, JACOB W. – 1964
THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO TAKE BIBLIOGRAPHIC INVENTORY OF RESEARCH CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS, (2) TO TEST A NUMBER OF THE CONCEPTS AND METHODS IN AN EXPLORATORY EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE THOUGHT PROCESSES AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ART STUDENTS, AND (3) TO FORMULATE A NUMBER OF ISSUES, CONCEPTS,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, College Students
TRAINING IN PROBLEM SOLVING.
RIMOLDI, H.J.A.; AND OTHERS – 1962
THIS STUDY AIMED AT--(1) CHARACTERIZING PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESSES OF DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS AND (2) DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON THE SUBJECTS' APPROACHES TO THEIR PROBLEM-SOLVING PERFORMANCE. THE DESIGN INCLUDED 50 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS AND 50 COLLEGE FRESHMEN DIVIDED INTO EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS IN WHICH SUBJECTS WERE MATCHED ON…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Colleges, Educational Research
The Perceptions of Implicative Relationships Among Black and White Adolescents and the Hardcore Unemployed. Illinois Studies of the Economically Disadvantaged.
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Triandis, Harry C.; And Others – 1971
This study examines the perceived antecedents and consequents of certain concepts that are central to life in the black ghetto and to black and white interactions in job settings, as they are perceived by samples of blacks and whites. This study had two main goals: (a) instrument development; and (b) the gathering of data on subjective…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Students, Cognitive Processes, College Students