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Electron Drift Velocities In Xenon, H. L. Brooks, M. C. Cornell, John L. Fletcher, Ian M. Littlewood, Kaare J. Nygaard
Electron Drift Velocities In Xenon, H. L. Brooks, M. C. Cornell, John L. Fletcher, Ian M. Littlewood, Kaare J. Nygaard
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The electron drift velocity has been measured in xenon over the range of reduced field strength 1 Td
When Can We Introspect Accurately About Mental Processes?, Ronald Thomas Kellogg
When Can We Introspect Accurately About Mental Processes?, Ronald Thomas Kellogg
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Some theorists have suggested that the cognitive processes determining a person's performance in a given task are unconscious, making introspection a poor research tool for studying these processes. Others have argued that the relevant processes usually are consciously controlled and can be detailed by asking the person to introspect. Here, a synthesis of these two positions, a dual-factor approach, is proposed. Some of the processes involved in achieving a cognitive goal, such as learning a new concept, are viewed as unconscious and automatic; however, other processes are intentionally allocated conscious attention, in certain tasks, to accomplish other goal. To illustrate …
Hypothesis Recognition Failure In Conjunctive And Disjunctive Concept-Identification Tasks, Ronald Thomas Kellogg
Hypothesis Recognition Failure In Conjunctive And Disjunctive Concept-Identification Tasks, Ronald Thomas Kellogg
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While solving either a conjunctive or a disjunctive concept-identification problem, college students were asked to recognize hypothesis, stimulus, and feedback information from the immediately preceding trial. After this phase of the experiment, subjects were asked to estimate feature frequencies of occurrence and to classify old and new instances of the concept. Recognition performance was best for feedback and worst for stimulus information. Contrary to hypothesis theory, hypotheses were correctly recognized 65% of the time overall. Instances presented twice, once, and never before were classified equally well, a finding that argues against specific-instance theory. Finally, frequency estimates increased as a function …