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Bagri, Gurjog; Dickinson, Laura – Reading Psychology, 2023
Metacognitive reading strategies represent a goal-driven system that plays a role in critical thinking verbal tasks in students. Research reveals that greater attentional focus and use of executive functions is associated with lower trait anxiety, and better verbal reasoning. However, high verbal reasoning is also positively associated with trait…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Anxiety, Critical Thinking
Debra S. Osborn; Sabrina N. Quiroga; Edwin Tang; Lyds J. Sherman; Nicholas H. Reese; Khyati Verma; Laura R. Marks – Journal of Career Development, 2024
Social identities impact the way individuals see themselves and their career options but career theories have been slow to the call in exploring how social identities interface with theoretical assumptions. The purpose of this study was to examine how social identities affect and inform specific dimensions identified by cognitive information…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Information Processing, Career Choice
Melissa T. Buelow; James H. Wirth; Jennifer M. Kowalsky – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: Did living through the COVID-19 pandemic cause healthy college students to experience "pandemic-brain," a phenomenon characterized by difficulties with various cognitive abilities? Did students shift from deliberative to more impulsive decision making? Participants: We compared a pre-pandemic sample of 722 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, COVID-19, Pandemics, Undergraduate Students
Jianqiang Ye; Junhua Gao; Tingting Lin; Kun He; Dimei Chen – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
This study explored the impact of oxidation-reduction reaction problem difficulty on university students' cognitive load using event-related potentials (ERPs). Forty-eight balanced low and high difficulty problems were designed. Fifteen undergraduate students majoring in chemistry (8 females and 7 males) participated in the study. Results…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Difficulty Level
Belletier, Clément; Doherty, Jason M.; Graham, Agnieszka J.; Rhodes, Stephen; Cowan, Nelson; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe; Barrouillet, Pierre; Camos, Valérie; Logie, Robert H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
How working memory supports dual-task performance is the focus of a long-standing debate. Most previous research on this topic has focused on participant performance data. In three experiments, we investigated whether changes in participant-reported strategies across single- and dual-task conditions might help resolve this debate by offering new…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Theories, Cognitive Processes, Executive Function
Fernandez, Mercedes; Banks, Jonathan B.; Gestido, Samantha; Morales, Maria – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
The impact of bilingualism on the executive functioning constructs of inhibition, shifting, and updating remains unclear, with prior findings yielding inconsistent results. Several explanations for the lack of congruency have been suggested, including the dependence on observed variables, the impact of test modality on performance, and the need to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Executive Function, Monolingualism
Anderson, Kiera; Marino, Matthew T. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2023
Enrollment rates of students with disabilities (SWD) in postsecondary education continue to rise, yet SWD continue to face challenges with persistence toward degree completion. Executive function deficits (e.g., difficulty concentrating, managing time, problem solving, or planning) often impact academic, social, and occupational function. Academic…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Students, Coaching (Performance), Executive Function
Pilato, Ilana B.; Beezhold, Bonnie; Radnitz, Cynthia – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Engaging in a healthy diet and positive lifestyle behaviors have been shown to improve cognitive functioning in children and older adults, however, few have examined these factors in college-aged students. Participants: A diverse sample of 115 college students were recruited on two university campuses. Method: Completed computerized…
Descriptors: College Students, Eating Habits, Dietetics, Student Behavior
Erb, Christopher D.; Welhaf, Matthew S.; Smeekens, Bridget A.; Moreau, David; Kane, Michael J.; Marcovitch, Stuart – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
We used a technique known as reach tracking to investigate how individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) relate to the functioning of two processes proposed to underlie cognitive control: a threshold adjustment process that temporarily inhibits motor output in response to signals of conflict and a controlled selection process that…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis
Dania, Aspasia; Kaltsonoudi, Kalliope; Ktistakis, Ioannis; Trampa, Konstantina; Boti, Niki; Pesce, Caterina – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: Within team sports, players' ability to inhibit inappropriate behavioral responses and flexibly adapt to upcoming challenges relates significantly to their game performance. As such, there have been calls for cognitively fostering programs to form the basis of game teaching and coaching practice. However, only few studies have tested…
Descriptors: Games, Executive Function, Student Athletes, Program Effectiveness
Büning, Christian; Jürgens, Lara; Lausberg, Hedda – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Studies have reported positive effects of physical activity on cognitive executive functions, such as inhibitory control and creativity. These studies predominantly compared scenarios of sports participation vs. no sports participation or reduced sports to simple aerobic exercises. However, whether the type or intensity of physical…
Descriptors: Athletics, Executive Function, Creativity, Physical Activities
Lucy Finkelstein-Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Losing a close friend or family member is a common, but profoundly stressful life experience. For young adults in particular, bereavement is associated with depression, sleep difficulties, and other psychological sequelae of stress. An experience of loss commonly prompts some level of cognitive processing as an attempt to make meaning, but little…
Descriptors: College Students, Grief, Attention Control, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Bichler, Sarah; Schwaighofer, Matthias; Stadler, Matthias; Bühner, Markus; Greiff, Samuel; Fischer, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
A previous study found that task shifting and fluid intelligence, but not working memory capacity (WMC) and prior knowledge, influenced the worked example effect (Schwaighofer, Bühner, & Fischer, 2016). To increase confidence in these findings, we report a preregistered extended replication study of Schwaighofer et al.'s investigation.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Executive Function
Sulaiman O. Adeoye – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students' performance on fraction story problems is a cause for concern given that knowledge of fractions in the elementary grades is essential for learning Algebra in secondary school and advanced mathematics in college. Using grounded theory, the current study investigated DHH college students' cognitive strategies…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, College Students, Cognitive Processes
Battistoli, B. F. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
This study explores the relationship between the frequency and time spent on cell phones (independent variables) by students in the classroom and students' academic performance (dependent variable), as represented by self-reported grade point average (GPA). A 22-question Internet survey was conducted at a private Northeastern university (N =…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Student Behavior, Grade Point Average