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Direct linkSikstrom, Sverker – Cognitive Science, 2006
An item that stands out (is isolated) from its context is better remembered than an item consistent with the context. This isolation effect cannot be accounted for by increased attention, because it occurs when the isolated item is presented as the first item, or by impoverished memory of nonisolated items, because the isolated item is better…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Primacy Effect, Short Term Memory, Depression (Psychology)
Download full textFrager, Alan M. – 1979
Well-known questioning strategies, built on question classification systems, are examined. Types of question classification systems are identified as: "hierarchical," which are sequential and cumulative; "non-hierarchical," which are based on elements which should not be rank ordered; systems which are "context-bound" to specifics; and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
