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Belief bias and relational reasoning.

When people evaluate categorical syllogisms, they tend to reject unbelievable conclusions and accept believable ones irrespective of their validity. Typically, this effect is particularly marked for invalid conclusions that are possible, but do not ...
Maxwell J Roberts, Elizabeth D A Sykes (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
belief-bias-relational-reasoning.asp

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Measuring learning using an untrained control group: comment on R. Reber and Perruchet.

R. Reber and Perruchet (this issue) argue that use of control groups without training is unsound for establishing that learning has occurred. We show that inferring learning from a difference between a trained group and an untrained control in no way ...
Zoltán Dienes, Gerry Altmann (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
measuring-learning-untrained-control-group-comment-r-reber-perruchet.asp

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Phonological information in immediate and delayed sentence recall.

Potter and Lombardi (1990) state in their conceptual regeneration hypothesis that immediate sentence recall is only based on conceptual and lexical information; phonological information does not contribute. As experimental evidence for this hypothesis, ...
Ralf Rummer, Johannes Engelkamp (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
phonological-information-immediate-delayed-sentence-recall.asp

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The impact of reader skill on phonological processing in visual word recognition.

There has been much debate about the role of phonology in reading. This debate has been fuelled, in part, by mixed findings for phonological effects in lexical decision tasks. In the present research we investigated the impact of reader skill on three ...
Sara J Unsworth, Penny M Pexman (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
impact-reader-skill-phonological-processing-visual-word-recognition.asp

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Automatic activation of multiplication facts: evidence from the nodes adjacent to the product.

Adult observers are widely assumed to be equipped with a specific memory store containing arithmetic facts. The present study was aimed at exploring the possibility of obtaining an automatic activation of multiplication facts by using the number-matching ...
Giovanni Galfano, Elena Rusconi, Carlo Umiltà (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200301)
automatic-activation-multiplication-facts-evidence-nodes-adjacent.asp

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League tables and school effectiveness: a mathematical model.

School performance tables, an alphabetical list of secondary schools along with aggregates of their pupils performances in national tests, have been published in the UK since 1992. Inevitably, the media have responded by publishing ranked league tables. ...
Rebecca B Hoyle, James C Robinson (Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 200301)
league-tables-school-effectiveness-mathematical-model.asp

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Associations of lifestyle factors with bone mineral density among male university students in Japan.

To investigate associations of lifestyle factors with bone mineral density among young men in Japan, we measured bone mineral density of the second metacarpal bone in 143 male university students, aged 18-22 years, by the computed X-ray densitometry. The ...
Isuzu Egami, Kenji Wakai, Hirotada Kunitomo, Akiko Tamakoshi, Masahiko Ando, Toshiko Nakayama, Yoshiyuki Ohno (J Epidemiol, 200301)
associations-lifestyle-factors-bone-mineral-density-male-university.asp

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Measuring attitudes and behaviors to studying and learning for university students: a Rasch measurement model analysis.

A Studying and Learning Scale was created using a model of Motivation (sets of ordered stem-items based on Striving for Excellence, Desire to Learn and Personal Incentives), with each item answered from three self-reported perspectives (an Ideal ...
Russell F Waugh (J Appl Meas, 2003)
measuring-attitudes-behaviors-studying-learning-university-students.asp

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The relationship between college students schema regarding alcohol use, their television viewing patterns, and their previous experience with alcohol.

Two hundred college students participated in an experiment investigating how individuals use television and real world experiences to construct alcohol use schema. Students were asked to write a story about a student who had a difficult day and, on ...
Linda Godbold Kean, Kelly Fudge Albada (Health Commun, 2003)
relationship-college-students-schema-alcohol-television-viewing.asp

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Attitudinal and normative predictors of alcohol use by older adolescents and young adults.

A model of alcohol use based on the theory of planned behavior, expectancy theory, and the developmental literature on the influence of parents and peers was examined with 87 eleventh grade students, 105 college freshmen, and 107 college juniors. ...
Tara L Kuther, Ann Higgins-DAlessandro (J Drug Educ, 2003)
attitudinal-normative-predictors-alcohol-older-adolescents-young.asp