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Johnson, Candine E. – 1979
All learning takes place through the unification of body and mind. Within the realm of motor skill learning, the term mental practice has been used to explain this phenomenon. It has been found that individuals can use their imaginations to learn and to improve upon their performance. Mental practice can be used by teachers who have too little…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Drills (Practice), Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction
Peer reviewedBartholomew, Robert E.; Sirois, Francois – Educational Studies, 1996
Examines the characteristic features of epidemic hysteria reports in school settings. Discovers three distinct symptom patterns: (1) mass motor hysteria (psychomotor alterations due to preexisting stress); (2) mass anxiety hysteria (extreme anxiety following the redefinition of a mundane event); and (3) mass pseudo-hysteria (relabeling of mundane…
Descriptors: Child Health, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Epidemiology
Peer reviewedVerbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis, 1977
This journal highlights five papers by international authors on various topics in education. In the first article, it was hypothesized deductively that extroverts will show more fluctuations in attending than introverts and that individuals with high neuroticism show more fluctuations in attention span than less neurotic persons. The second…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Stages, Educational Research


