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Demetriou, Helen; Hay, Dale F. – Infancy, 2004
Reactions to peers' distress were recorded for 52 toddlers (hosts), 18 to 36 months old, who were observed playing with familiar peers in their own homes during 2 sessions, 6 months apart. Four contextual factors were explored: the host's responsibility for the guest's distress, similarity between the toddler and the distressed peer, relative…
Descriptors: Siblings, Familiarity, Toddlers, Peer Relationship
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Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Davis, Colin J.; Hanley, Derek A. – Cognition, 2005
We assessed the impact of visual similarity on written word identification by having participants learn new words (e.g. BANARA) that were neighbours of familiar words that previously had no neighbours (e.g. BANANA). Repeated exposure to these new words made it more difficult to semantically categorize the familiar words. There was some evidence of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Word Recognition, Semantics
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Carlisle, Joanne F.; Stone, C. Addison – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
Two studies were designed to investigate the role of morphemic structure on students' word reading. The first study asked whether familiar morphemes in words facilitate word reading for elementary students. Results showed that lower and upper elementary students read words with two morphemes (derived words with a base word and one suffix, such as…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Morphemes, Reading Skills, Phonology
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Shivy, V.A.; Sullivan, T.N. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
The field of engineering is defined by a number of specialty areas, thus most engineering students must decide upon an educational specialty track within the engineering major. Data on familiarity with, and perceptions of similarity among 11 engineering specialties were collected from 129 undergraduate engineering students from a public urban…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Familiarity, Career Choice
Kuiack, Marguerite – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2004
This paper uses narrative and reflective methodologies to examine pedagogical practices that enable the production of meaningful relationships. I suggest that the term "fields of influence" encapsulates practices that enable some people to influence relationships with others. The narrative invites readers to consider how the embodied qualities…
Descriptors: Ecology, Ornithology, Social Influences, Reputation
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Benoit, Laurent; Lehalle, Henri; Jouen, Francois – Cognitive Development, 2004
Two alternative hypotheses can be used to explain how young children acquire the cardinal meaning of small-number words. The first stresses the role of counting and predicts better performance when the items are presented in succession. The second considers the role of subitizing and predicts better performance when the items are presented…
Descriptors: Young Children, Hypothesis Testing, Numbers, Cognitive Development
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Sharifian, Farzad; Rochecouste, Judith; Malcolm, Ian G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
The study reported in this paper explored the schemas that Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal educators bring to the task of comprehending oral narratives produced by Aboriginal children. During each data collection session, a participant listened to a series of eight passages and tried to recall each passage immediately after listening. The…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Recall (Psychology), Indigenous Populations, Schemata (Cognition)
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Weinstock, Michael; Neuman, Yair; Tabak, Iris – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2004
The research described in this paper investigates one possible explanation for students' ability or inability to identify fallacious arguments. As students' ability to identify informal reasoning fallacies has been the subject of scant empirical investigation, the current study may broaden our knowledge concerning this phenomenon and locate it in…
Descriptors: Norms, Persuasive Discourse, Misconceptions, Thinking Skills
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Fung, C. Victor – International Journal of Music Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived reasons of pre-service music educators (undergraduate music majors preparing to teach music) for preferring three distinctive pieces with traditional roots in East Asia. The selected pieces were foreign to research participants in the US. Pre-service music educators (N = 66) listened to a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Music Education, Music
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Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B. – Developmental Science, 2004
Two experiments examined the role of perceptual complexity, object familiarity and form class cues on how children interpret novel adjectives and count nouns. Four-year-old children participated in a forced-choice match-to-target task in which an exemplar was named with a novel word and children were asked to choose another one that matched the…
Descriptors: Cues, Nouns, Familiarity, Preschool Children
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Stylianou, Despina A.; Grzegorczyk, Ivona – PRIMUS, 2005
Symmetry is an aspect of mathematics that is strongly linked to art and design. We chose to explore this connection in the context of a liberal arts mathematics course. Here we present a brief description of this course, including an outline of the curriculum and specific features of the course. We subsequently present the results of a study we…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Familiarity, Geometric Concepts, Liberal Arts
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Kronland, Antonia; Whittlesea, Bruce W. A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
A surprising validation of expectation experienced during a recognition test induces the perception of discrepancy and a feeling of familiarity. The authors investigated whether that perception also affects memory performance when it is experienced in the original encounter with a stimulus. Target words were presented in a study phase, half in…
Descriptors: Perception, Memory, Familiarity, Task Analysis
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Quinn, Paul C.; Schyns, Philippe G.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The relation between perceptual organization and categorization processes in 3- and 4-month-olds was explored. The question was whether an invariant part abstracted during category learning could interfere with Gestalt organizational processes. A 2003 study by Quinn and Schyns had reported that an initial category familiarization experience in…
Descriptors: Perceptual Development, Classification, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Finegold, Adam R. D.; Cooke, Louise – Internet and Higher Education, 2006
The aim of this research was to improve understanding of the attitudes, experiences and dynamics of interaction of students working in online groups. This was achieved through a case study of postgraduate Information Studies students using the WebCT discussion board at City University in the academic year 2004-2005. Qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes, Interaction
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Li, Guofang – School Community Journal, 2006
This article reports on a sample of 26 middle-class Chinese immigrant parents' perspectives on their children's reading, writing, mathematics learning, and homework, and on the parents' involvement in and communication with mainstream American schools. Findings suggested both consistencies and discrepancies between their beliefs and practices.…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Education, Familiarity, Parent School Relationship
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