Browsing by Subject "Cognitive ability"
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Chronic Self-Consciousness and Its Effects on Cognitive Performance, Physiology, and Self-Reported Anxiety
(University of North Carolina Dept of Psychology, 2005)Self-focused attention, as induced in the lab, facilitates task performance in some instances and inhibits it in others. Less is know about the effects of trait self-consciousness on performance. The present study examines ...
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Doctoral Thesis
Examining the effects of context-free and context-situated instructional strategies on learners' critical thinking. (contextualized instruction)
(ProQuest Information & Learning, 1999)An experimental study was carried out to (1) examine the effects of three instructional strategies on critical thinking, and (2) to determine whether there was a relationship between critical thinking and general cognitive ...
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The Functions of Pictures in Problem Solving
(International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004)In the present study, we assert that pictures serve four functions in problem solving: decorative, representational, organizational and informational. We, therefore, investigate the effects of pictures based on their ...
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Predictors of reading development in at-risk kindergarten children
(2002)The purpose of the present study was to examine whether phonological and cognitive tasks predict reading acquisition in a group of at-risk kindergarten children. Planning, attention, simultaneous processing, successive ...
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Book Chapter
Teacher ratings and the assessment of attention deficits in school age children
(Nova Biomedical Books, 2007)The ability of teachers to identify children with attention difficulties was assessed among Cypriot and Canadian school children using the Attention Checklist (ACL; Das, 1986). Data were collected among Grade 4 children ...