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Need For Cognition Scale: A Study Of Its Psychometric Properties And Its Ability To Predict Academic Achievement, Arthur Cleavinger
Need For Cognition Scale: A Study Of Its Psychometric Properties And Its Ability To Predict Academic Achievement, Arthur Cleavinger
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The psychometric properties of the Need for Cognition Scale (NCS; Cacioppo & Petty, 1982) were investigated in two studies with independent samples of undergraduates at Western Kentucky University. In the first study (N = 379), the internal consistency and factor structure of the NCS were examined, and the NCS was compared to the Achievement subscale of the Personality Research Form (Jackson, 1974) and the State-Trait Curiosity subscale of the State-Trait Personality Inventory (Speilberger, 1979). Also, the possibility of differences in “need for cognition” attributable to socio-economic status (i.e. the educational attainment of the subjects’ parents) were examined. The second study …
The Early Motor Profile: Correlation With The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test Of Motor Efficiency1, Amy N. Spiegel, Kathleen M. Steffens, John E. Ryders, Robert H. Bruininks
The Early Motor Profile: Correlation With The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test Of Motor Efficiency1, Amy N. Spiegel, Kathleen M. Steffens, John E. Ryders, Robert H. Bruininks
Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications
A correlational study of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and the Early Motor Pro-file with 109 kindergarten children showed a significant relation between these two measures of mo-tor abilities. These results support use of the latter profile as a measure of motor development in preschool age children.
The Cognitive Ecology Of Problem Solving, Alan Hartley
The Cognitive Ecology Of Problem Solving, Alan Hartley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
This chapter examines the first goal: understanding real-world problem solving. It is particularly concerned with issues of representativeness and what has been called ecological validity. In addition, because there is considerable evidence that there are differences across the adult life span in solving problems, as reviewed by Botwinick (1978), Giambra and Arenberg (1980), and Rabbitt (1977), it will be important to ask whether or not age is an important qualifier to the conclusions that are reached. The first section discusses the problems people actually face and reviews the paradigms used in scientific investigations to represent problems, including studies of age …
Self-Reported Memory As A Function Of Clinical Versus Everyday Memory Tasks, Carmella Maria Prescott
Self-Reported Memory As A Function Of Clinical Versus Everyday Memory Tasks, Carmella Maria Prescott
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Evidence For Common Coding Of Temporal And Nontemporal Information In Pigeons, Stephen Bridson
Evidence For Common Coding Of Temporal And Nontemporal Information In Pigeons, Stephen Bridson
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Two experiments found evidence that pigeons commonly code temporal and visual samples that are associated with the same comparisons in many-to-one matching. In Experiment 1, pigeons were trained to match temporal (2-sec and 8-sec keylight durations) and color (red and green) samples to line tilt comparisons (vertical and horizontal). Similar rates of forgetting were found for all samples. Furthermore, retention of sample information appeared more similar for samples which shared common comparisons than those that did not. In Experiment 2, pigeons learned new comparison (circle and triangle) associations with either temporal or visual samples from Experiment 1. When tested on …
What One Intelligence Test Measures: A Theoretical Account Of The Processing In The Raven Progressive Matrices Test, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just, Peter Shell
What One Intelligence Test Measures: A Theoretical Account Of The Processing In The Raven Progressive Matrices Test, Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just, Peter Shell
Marcel Adam Just
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