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Retrospect and Prospect
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A review of the effects on IRT item parameter estimates with a focus on misbehaving common items in test equating
(2010)Many studies have investigated the topic of change or drift in item parameter estimates in the context of item response theory (IRT). Content effects, such as instructional variation and curricular emphasis, as well as ...
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A Review of the Factorial Structure of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI): Greek Evidence
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008)This study extends the psychometric evidence on the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in a sample of Greek-speaking adults (N = 818). Alpha coefficients for the nine dimensions indicated high consistency among the comprising ...
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Revisiting Perspective-Taking: Can People Maintain Imagined Perspectives?
(2013)Three experiments were conducted to examine whether people can adopt and maintain imagined perspectives in the absence of target information. The task used entailed providing information about an imagined perspective in ...
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The Risk for Traumatic Brain Injury and Persisting Symptomatology in Elementary, Secondary, and University-Level Students: An International Perspective with the Greek Version of the Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire
(2019)Purpose: This study is part of the first systematic program in the Republic of Cyprus examining the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children, teenagers, and university students. The study incorporated the ...
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Risky and aggressive driving in young adults: Personality matters
(2011)Young, novice drivers constitute a disproportionate percentage of fatalities and injuries in road traffic accidents around the world. This study, attempts to identify motivational factors behind risky driving behavior, and ...
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The role of cognitive reserve in cognitive aging: Results from the neurocognitive study on aging
(2013)The study tested the cognitive reserve hypothesis by quantifying cognitive reserve (CR) and subsequently determining its role in executive function and verbal episodic memory performance. A neuropsychological battery was ...
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The Role of Contextual Information in Word Meaning Acquisition during Normal Reading.
(Illinois Univ, Urbana Center for the Study,of Reading;Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.,, 1991)A study was conducted to examine the data collected by previous researchers on the degree of helpfulness of natural contexts. In this study two schemes of context cue types were compared on the basis of their contribution ...
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The Role of Distal and Proximal Cognitive Processes in Literacy Skills in Greek
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) are established proximal predictors of word reading fluency and spelling. Information processing skills, such as successive and simultaneous processing, are ...
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The role of emotion in motivation to learn in psychoanalysis and the motivational systems theory
(2008)In this note we discuss the role of emotion in motivation to learn. Two theoretical frameworks provide the context of the discussion. Psychoanalytic theory is one of the first traditions that argued for a powerful role of ...
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The Role of Inhibition in Conceptual Learning from Refutation and Standard Expository Texts
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The role of metabolic syndrome factors on cognition using latent variable modeling: The neurocognitive study on aging
(2018)OBJECTIVE: Although metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been shown to increase the risk of cognitive decline, it still remains unclear whether the risk is related to MetS as a whole or its individual factors. The aim of the ...
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The role of reading comprehension in word meaning acquisition during reading
(1998)The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of reading comprehension on the acquisition of word meanings from context and to compare it to the effects of local context characteristics, such as proximity and ...
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The role of self-focus, task difficulty, task self-relevance, and evaluation anxiety in reaction time performance
(2004)Self-focused attention has been found to facilitate task performance in some instances and inhibit it in others. Among chronically anxious individuals it appears to consistently hinder performance. Less is known about the ...
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The role of self-focused attention on cognitive performance: Results from three experiments
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