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Dimitris Anastasiou – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2024
The field of specific learning disabilities (SLDs) has faced three kinds of challenges. "Constitutional challenges" arise from classification and definitional complexities, identification issues, comorbidity, and ontological debates. "Internal challenges" include the inherent difficulties of scientific thinking that compete…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Accessibility (for Disabled), Conflict, Classification
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Hood, Bruce; Gjersoe, Nathalia L.; Bloom, Paul – Cognition, 2012
Philosophers use hypothetical duplication scenarios to explore intuitions about personal identity. Here we examined 5- to 6-year-olds' intuitions about the physical properties and memories of a live hamster that is apparently duplicated by a machine. In Study 1, children thought that more of the original's physical properties than episodic…
Descriptors: Animals, Photography, Reprography, Identification
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Pennycook, Gordon; Fugelsang, Jonathan A.; Koehler, Derek J. – Cognition, 2012
Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys and Glumicic (2008) demonstrated that participants reason longer about problems that are characterized by conflict (as opposed to agreement) between stereotypical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Group Membership, Reaction Time, Conflict