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Psychological Help-Seeking Intention among College Students across Three Problem Areas
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Hess, Timothy R.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2013
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was used to understand psychological help-seeking intention for 3 common concerns: anxiety or depression, career choice concerns, and alcohol or drug use. Eight hundred eighty-nine university students completed surveys for the TPB variables plus belief in personal efficacy and control to solve the problems.…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Behavior Theories, College Students, Anxiety
An investigation of the relationships between problem solving strategies, representation and memory
Wood, D.; And Others – Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
There has been considerable debate in recent years about the status of "imagery" in problem solving. The present experiment attempts to show that while subjects may employ representational strategies when they first encounter a class of problems, they abandon such strategies as they gain experience with the problems. (Editor)
Descriptors: College Students, Experimental Psychology, Imagery, Memory
Temporal Aspects of Simple Multiplication and Comparison
Parkman, John M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1972
Primary purpose of this study was to investigate the processes underlying simple mental multiplication. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Information Retrieval, Memory
Effects of a Logical Versus a Mnemonic Learning Strategy on Performance in Two Undergraduate Psychology Classes
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Goldman, Roy D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Results suggested that it may be possible to seek most efficient'' strategies for given tasks, and possibly, conditionally'' most efficient strategies for individual ability profiles. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Learning, Learning Processes
Information Utilization and Personality
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Kernan, Jerome B.; Mojena, Richard – Journal of Communication, 1973
Article investigated the amount of information that could be used in making decisions and communicating. College students were part of an experiment, which measured information with information-theoretic concepts. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, College Students, Decision Making, Information Needs
Analysing Problem Solving Behaviour of Successful and Unsuccessful Statistics Students.
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Hauff, Helen M.; Fogarty, Gerard J. – Instructional Science, 1996
Describes a study conducted at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) that investigated problem-solving behavior in statistics by documenting differences between successful and unsuccessful students. Two methodological approaches are described: one required students to identify key structural features of common problems, and the second…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Improving Creative Thinking By Training in the Production and/or Judgment of Solutions
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Stratton, R. Paul; Brown, Robert – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Study compared the relative advantages of three training procedures (production, judgment and combined) to a no-training control for three levels of initial ability. (Authors)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking
Individual Differences in Thought Processes.
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Fogliatto, Hermelinda M. – 1963
In this research on individual differences in thought processes, the primary interest was to study the process followed by the subject in order to reach the solution of the problem. For this purpose, the performance of 38 experimental subjects was studied throughout 24 problems of the training sessions. The methods used were group norms, length of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups