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Fischhoff, Baruch; Gonzalez, Roxana M.; Lerner, Jennifer S.; Small, Deborah A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2012
The authors examined the evolution of cognitive and emotional responses to terror risks for a nationally representative sample of Americans between late 2001 and late 2002. Respondents' risk judgments changed in ways consistent with their reported personal experiences. However, they did not recognize these changes, producing hindsight bias in…
Descriptors: Priming, Psychological Studies, Emotional Response, Risk
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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
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Santi, Angelo; Hoover, Claire; Simmons, Sabrina – Learning and Motivation, 2011
Rats were trained in a duration-comparison task to press one lever if the comparison duration ("c") was 1.2-s shorter than a standard duration ("s"), and another lever if c was 1.2-s longer than s. The interval between s and c duration was 1 s. The 10 duration pairs used during training controlled for the absolute duration of "c" and the total…
Descriptors: Intervals, Children, Animals, Task Analysis
Levin, Joel R.; Ghatala, Elizabeth S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
In a recently reported study, the functional components of imagery and vocalization strategies in children's verbal discrimination learning were examined, following the combined experimental/correlational logic of Underwood. The present research extends those results to a strategy that (unlike imagery and vocalization) has a positive influence on…
Descriptors: Children, Discrimination Learning, Experimental Psychology, Hypothesis Testing
Kee, Daniel W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
Addresses three specific problems in children's noun-pair learning: (a) the storage versus retrieval locus of the presentation-mode effect; (b) the storage versus retrieval locus of elaboration effects; and (c) assessment of the effects of congruence on elaborative facilitation. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Experimental Psychology, Experiments, Information Retrieval
Sims-Knight, Judith E.; Lipsitt, Lewis P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
The present study attempted to determine whether young children can make implicit chains involving images and words. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Eidetic Imagery, Experimental Psychology, Paired Associate Learning
Waters, Harriet Salatas; Waters, Everett – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1976
Kindergarten and second-grade children's free recall on repeated trials was investigated using a semantic orienting task procedure. (Editor)
Descriptors: Charts, Children, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Mussen, Paul – 1977
Research in the development of prosocial behavior in children is better done by naturalistic than by experimental methods. The choice of what problems to address in social science research depends upon value commitments. The ultimate criterion for evaluating research in the behavioral sciences must be social relevance and utility. The dominant…
Descriptors: Children, Experimental Psychology, Individual Development, Models