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- 1From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWho Decides What to Teach About Decision Making? This edited volume begins with the assumption that people in our culture often make bad decisions. Adolescents in particular are at risk for making poor decisions that...
- 2From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCreative individuals may use psychoactive drugs to enhance their ability to produce creative works, but it is difficult to differentiate the pharmacological effects from other influences. Part of the problem is that...
- 3From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedExperimental Epistemology and the Perception of Causality Professor Albert Michotte, or, more formally, Baron Albert Edouard Michotte van den Berck, a member of a distinguished, well-to-do, noble Catholic Belgian...
- 4From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHow Does Interest Affect Learning? The Return of a Neglected Question Anna reads a biology chapter on how the human body works. The material is difficult, and for Anna, boring. However, she recognizes that it is...
- 5From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn the Social Construction of Language and Cognitive Development In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a small group of developmental psychologists in the United States and Europe (e.g., Cole & Bruner, 1971; Luria, 1976;...
- 6From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDo Children Need Universal Grammar? A Challenge to Nativist Accounts Over the years, more and more researchers in language acquisition have come to recognize the importance of verbs as organizing elements in children's...
- 7From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnraveling the Dyslexia Rubric This volume is the fourth in the Neuropsychology and Cognition series, which is devoted to promoting greater understanding of the relationship between brain structure and function from an...
- 8From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNets, Names, and (Un-)Natural Hybrids "Natural language processing" (NLP) is an ambiguous expression, referring either to machine processing of natural language--a blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and...
- 9From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStructure Building: The Search for a Unified Theory of Language Comprehension If I had to choose one monograph that exemplifies the state of psychology of language today in its quest for a unified theory, I would...
- 10From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA surprising but common finding is that decision-making performance seems, on average, unaffected by whether decisions are based on probability phrases or on numerical probabilities. This study, however, shows that on a...
- 11From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe effect of the evaluative nature of to-be-forgotten information on the use of and memory for this information was investigated. Behaviors about a person in a role-playing context were presented to 148 undergraduates...
- 12From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere are four varieties of ipsative scoring, depending on the scaling properties, best assumed on psychological grounds. Determining psychological structure by factoring ipsative scores is an aspect of the general...
- 13From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPrerecall vividness ratings are lower for images from "bizarre" than from "common" sentences. This finding conflicts with the supposition that imagery serves as the mnemonic basis of the bizarre imagery recall...
- 14From: American Journal of Psychology. (Vol. 107, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent work using a single-word shadowing task, Slowiaczek and Hamburger (1992) reported facilitation in response times for auditory targets preceded by auditory but not visual primes that shared one initial phoneme,...