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Gabay, Shai; Chica, Ana B.; Charras, Pom; Funes, Maria J.; Henik, Avishai – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Inhibition of return (IOR) is modulated by task set and appears later in discrimination tasks than in detection tasks. Several hypotheses have been suggested to account for this difference. We tested three of these hypotheses in two experiments by examining the influence of cue and target level of processing on the onset of IOR. In the first…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli, Inhibition
Beller, Michal – 1992
It has previously been shown by M. Beller (1990) that an additive tree (Addtree, a hierarchical tree representation of similarity data developed by S. Sattath and A. Tversky in 1977), may be useful for representing the structure between tests and items through the similarity among them as measured by their intercorrelations. In this study, the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Decision Making, Difficulty Level, Equations (Mathematics)
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Peled, Zimra; Wittrock, M. C. – Instructional Science, 1990
Discusses how students generate meanings for mathematical word problems, develops a generative predicational model to account for students' comprehension of word problems, and describes an empirical study of Israeli sixth graders that was designed to test the model. Talk aloud protocols of the students are analyzed, and hypotheses tested are…
Descriptors: Coherence, Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education