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Dodds, Pennie; Rae, Babette; Brown, Scott – Cognitive Science, 2012
Miller (1956) identified his famous limit of 7 plus or minus 2 items based in part on absolute identification--the ability to identify stimuli that differ on a single physical dimension, such as lines of different length. An important aspect of this limit is its independence from perceptual effects and its application across all stimulus types.…
Descriptors: Identification, Stimuli, Mathematics, Accuracy
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Qu, Haiyan; Houston, Thomas K.; Williams, Jessica H.; Gilbert, Gregg H.; Shewchuk, Richard M. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2011
Objective: To identify facilitative strategies that could be used in developing a tobacco cessation program for community dental practices. Methods: Nominal group technique (NGT) meetings and a card-sort task were used to obtain formative data. A cognitive mapping approach involving multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis was…
Descriptors: Smoking, Form Classes (Languages), Dentistry, Multidimensional Scaling
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Iverson, Paul; Ekanayake, Dulika; Hamann, Silke; Sennema, Anke; Evans, Bronwen G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The present study investigated the perception and production of English /w/ and /v/ by native speakers of Sinhala, German, and Dutch, with the aim of examining how their native language phonetic processing affected the acquisition of these phonemes. Subjects performed a battery of tests that assessed their identification accuracy for natural…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonemes, Multidimensional Scaling, Interference (Language)