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Beneficial Assessment Outcomes From Frequent Testing, Abdulrazaq Imam
Beneficial Assessment Outcomes From Frequent Testing, Abdulrazaq Imam
Abdulrazaq A. Imam
When faced with deadlines, people tend to procrastinate. Students do this by delaying study time until examinations are so close the only option left is cramming. This procrastination scallop is a well-established behavioral phenomenon in both human and infrahuman species. Distributed practice also has been demonstrated to be superior to massed practice in the cognitive literature. Frequent testing provides opportunities for distributed practice and rehearsals that fill the gap between acquisition and the big test, creating its own mini-scallops. In sections of Introductory Psychology, Research Design, and Learning and Behavior courses, standard pre-post testing was conducted at the start and …
Acute Effects Of Cocaine On Spontaneous And Discriminative Motor Functions: Relation To Route Of Administration And Pharmacokinetics, Abdulrazaq Imam
Acute Effects Of Cocaine On Spontaneous And Discriminative Motor Functions: Relation To Route Of Administration And Pharmacokinetics, Abdulrazaq Imam
Abdulrazaq A. Imam
Rats administered cocaine i.p. and p.o. (7.5-30 mg/kg) showed dose-related increases in locomotor (LM) and small-movement activities, with LM rates decreasing over the 2-hr session, except at the largest i.p. dose, for which rates were greater in the 2nd hr. Lidocaine p.o. (15-30 mg/kg) did not increase activity. Relating the area under the curve measures for serum cocaine (concentration-time) and LM activity (LM activity-time) for 2 hr postadministration indicated that cocaine was about twice as potent i.p., compared to p.o., in increasing LM activity. Cocaine (i.p. and p.o.) produced dose-related decrements in both discriminative motor control performance and in task …