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Denson, Thomas F.; Spanovic, Marija; Miller, Norman – Psychological Bulletin, 2009
T. F. Denson, M. Spanovic, and N. Miller (2009) meta-analytically tested the hypotheses that specific appraisals and emotions would predict cortisol and immune responses to laboratory stressors and emotion inductions. Although the cortisol data supported the integrated specificity hypothesis, G. E. Miller (2009) raised questions concerning the…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Psychological Patterns, Hypothesis Testing, Meta Analysis
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Klauer, Karl Josef; Phye, Gary D. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
Researchers have examined inductive reasoning to identify different cognitive processes when participants deal with inductive problems. This article presents a prescriptive theory of inductive reasoning that identifies cognitive processing using a procedural strategy for making comparisons. It is hypothesized that training in the use of the…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Ginns, Paul – Learning and Instruction, 2006
This article reviews research on the spatial contiguity and temporal contiguity effects. Research on these instructional design effects has focussed on the instructional benefits for novices of reducing split attention between spatially or temporally disparate but related elements of information. Meta-analytic techniques were applied to 50…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Spatial Ability, Instructional Design, Hypothesis Testing