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Middlebrooks, Catherine D.; Murayama, Kou; Castel, Alan D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Prior research suggests that learners study and remember information differently depending upon the type of test they expect to later receive. The current experiments investigate how testing expectations impact the study of and memory for valuable information. Participants studied lists of words ranging in value from 1 to 10 points with the goal…
Descriptors: Expectation, Memory, Tests, Recall (Psychology)
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Garett, Renee; Liu, Sam; Young, Sean D. – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine changes in stress during first semester among freshmen undergraduates and (2) identify predictors of stress (coping strategies, emotional states, and quality of sleep). Participants: One hundred ninety-seven freshmen students were recruited for a 10-week study during first quarter…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Anxiety, College Freshmen, Psychological Patterns
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Denson, Nida; Park, Julie J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Racial/cultural awareness workshops constitute a salient form of co-curricular diversity engagement in higher education. Although these workshops are generally quite short in duration (often no more than two hours), previous research suggests that workshop participation is associated with undergraduate civic growth. The current study uses…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations, Cultural Awareness, Workshops