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A Metacontrol Perspective on Neurocognitive Atypicality: From Unipolar to Bipolar Accounts

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Standard clinical and psychiatric thinking follows a unipolar logic that is centered at “normal” conditions characterized by optimal performance in everyday life, with more atypical conditions being defined by the (degree of) absence of “normality.” A ...
Lorenza S. Colzato, Lorenza S. Colzato, Christian Beste, Christian Beste, Wenxin Zhang, Bernhard Hommel, Bernhard Hommel   +6 more
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Participant Nonnaiveté and the reproducibility of cognitive psychology

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2017
Many argue that there is a reproducibility crisis in psychology. We investigated nine well-known effects from the cognitive psychology literature—three each from the domains of perception/action, memory, and language, respectively—and found that they are
Rolf A. Zwaan, D. Pecher, Gabriele Paolacci, S. Bouwmeester, P. Verkoeijen, K. Dijkstra, R. Zeelenberg   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prior exposure to a sensorimotor game in virtual reality does not enhance stress reactivity toward the OpenTSST VR

Stress
Compared to the in-person Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), virtual reality (VR) variants reduce resource-intensity and improve standardization but induce stress with smaller effect sizes.
Lena Sophie Pfeifer, Carina Zoellner, Oliver T. Wolf, Gregor Domes, Christian J. Merz   +4 more
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Effectiveness of a stand-alone, smartphone-based virtual reality exposure app to reduce fear of heights in real-life: a randomized trial

npj Digital Medicine, 2021
Smartphone-based virtual reality (VR) applications (apps) might help to counter low utilization rates of available treatments for fear of heights.
Dorothée Bentz, Nan Wang, Merle K. Ibach, Nathalie S. Schicktanz, Anja Zimmer, Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Dominique J. F. de Quervain   +6 more
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The encoding of stochastic regularities is facilitated by action-effect predictions

Scientific Reports, 2021
Our brains continuously build and update predictive models of the world, sources of prediction being drawn for example from sensory regularities and/or our own actions.
Betina Korka, Erich Schröger, Andreas Widmann   +2 more
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Skill and self-knowledge: empirical refutation of the dual-burden account of the Dunning–Kruger effect

Royal Society Open Science, 2022
For many intellectual tasks, the people with the least skill overestimate themselves the most, a pattern popularly known as the Dunning–Kruger effect (DKE).
Robert D. McIntosh, Adam B. Moore, Yuxin Liu, Sergio Della Sala   +3 more
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Understanding Cognitive Load in Digital and Online Learning: a New Perspective on Extraneous Cognitive Load

Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Cognitive load theory has been a major influence for the field of educational psychology. One of the main guidelines of the theory is that extraneous cognitive load should be reduced to leave sufficient cognitive resources for the actual learning to take
Alexander Skulmowski, Kate M. Xu
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The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion

Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Cognitive load theory has been in development since the 1980s. Much of the impetus for that development has come from firstly, replication failures using randomised controlled trials and secondly, from the incorporation of other theories into cognitive ...
J. Sweller
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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Problem Space Matters: Evaluation of a German Enrichment Program for Gifted Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
We studied the development of cognitive abilities related to intelligence and creativity (N = 48, 6–10 years old), using a longitudinal design (over one school year), in order to evaluate an Enrichment Program for gifted primary school children initiated
Marisete M. Welter, Marisete M. Welter, Saskia Jaarsveld, Thomas Lachmann, Thomas Lachmann   +4 more
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