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Direct linkMaier, Michaela; Rothmund, Tobias; Retzbach, Andrea; Otto, Lukas; Besley, John C. – Educational Psychologist, 2014
This article reviews current research on informal science learning through news media. Based on a descriptive model of media-based science communication we distinguish between (a) the professional routines by which journalists select and depict scientific information in traditional media and (b) the psychological processes that account for how…
Descriptors: Informal Education, News Media, Science Instruction, Journalism
Smith, Nathaniel C., Jr. – J Gen Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level, Perception
Phelan, Joseph G. – J Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Psychological Characteristics
Peer reviewedGrove, Michael S.; Eisenman, Russell – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedGyr, J. W.; And Others – Human Development, 1974
A study of whether perceptual processes of children can be viewed within a structuralist frame of reference and whether the concept of the group of transformations and related notions can be used to formulate perceptual phenomena and to predict experimental results. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Nicholls, John G. – 1979
This study examines the development of children's preference for task difficulty levels. Subjects were 78 boys and 66 girls, aged 63 to 105 months. The sample was separated into older and younger groups. Within each age group, half the children of each sex were randomly assigned to one of two forms to test their level of aspiration. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Gadway, Charles J. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Download full textSimonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Visualization
Flaherty, Etienne – 1979
Controlling the rate of oral delivery in the second language classroom has been demonstrated as beneficial to the learner, whose information-processing capacity is an important factor in listening comprehension. Rate of information delivery can be controlled by limiting the actual rate of words per unit of time, or by maintaining content…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Language Instruction
Uzgiris, Ina C. – 1977
This paper describes seven interrelated studies concerned with children's understanding of sequential actions and with the effects of observing a model on this understanding. A total of 546 elementary and secondary school students served as subjects for the studies. The tasks for all of the studies involved deriving the pattern for a sequence from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
