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Homer, Bruce D.; Plass, Jan L.; Rose, Maya C.; MacNamara, Andrew; Pawar, Shashank; Ober, Teresa M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
"Executive function" (EF), critical for many developmental outcomes, emerge in childhood and continue developing into early adulthood (Blakemore & Choudhury, 2006). During adolescence there are important developments in "Hot EF," which involves using EF in emotionally salient contexts (Zelazo & Carlson, 2012). The…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Ability, Age Differences, Prior Learning
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Plass, Jan L.; Homer, Bruce D.; Pawar, Shashank; Brenner, Corinne J.; MacNamara, Andrew P. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Research suggests that gains in executive function (EF) skills training are strongest when task difficulty increases progressively, yet findings on the effectiveness of adaptive approaches for EF training are inconsistent. This study compared the effectiveness of an adaptive vs a non-adaptive version of a digital game designed to train the EF…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Video Games
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Herman, Jana Morgan – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2012
Marc Prensky coined the term "digital native" in 2001 to describe those who have grown up with a constant interaction of technology, including television, video games, and the Internet (Prensky, 2001). For these people, many of them now in their twenties, life has always included the presence of screens--televisions, cell phones, iPods, video…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Access to Information, Adolescents, Generational Differences
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2021, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year has been converted into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology