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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
(2019)
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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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The role of the forensic psychologist
(Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 2018)
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The role of the forensic psychologist
(Charles C Thomas Publisher, 2009)Being admitted by a judge as an expert witness to testify in a trial confers status on a professional and his or her specialist scientific field. This chapter first considers forensic psychologists as expert witnesses in ...
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The role of the self in mindblindness in autism
(2011)Since its inception the 'mindblindness' theory of autism has greatly furthered our understanding of the core social-communication impairments in autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, one of the more subtle issues ...
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The role of the teacher in identifying learning disabilities: A study using the mccarney Learning Disability Evaluation Scale (LDES)
(2009)The purpose of the study was to examine whether the Greek translation of the Learning Disability Evaluation Scale (LDES) can be used in the identification of learning disabilities. The LDES was completed by 165 teachers ...
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Roles of medial prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex in self-evaluation
(2010)Empirical investigations of the relation of frontal lobe function to self-evaluation have mostly examined the evaluation of abstract qualities in relation to self versus other people. The present research furthers our ...
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Sampling of Common Items: An Unrecognized Source of Error in Test Equating.
(Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing CRESST, 2004)There is variability in the estimation of an equating transformation because common-item parameters are obtained from responses of samples of examinees. The most commonly used standard error of equating quantifies this ...
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Scene consistency and spatial presence increase the sensation of self-motion in virtual reality
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Schools, parents, and youth violence: A multilevel, ecological analysis
(2006)Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), this study utilized an ecological approach to investigate the joint contribution of parents and schools on changes in violent behavior over ...