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General intelligence predicts reasoning ability even for evolutionarily familiar content

Intelligence, 2011
Abstract The existence of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms related to intelligence, which appear to facilitate all forms of problem solving, conflicts with the strong modularity view of the mind espoused by some evolutionary psychologists.
Scott Barry Kaufman, Colin G. DeYoung, Deidre L. Reis, Jeremy R. Gray   +3 more
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Does Familiarity Breed Content? Taking Account of Familiarity with a Topic in Personalizing Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
We report on an evaluation of the effectiveness of considering a user's familiarity with a topic in improving information retrieval performance. This approach to personalization is based on previous results indicating differences in user search behavior and judgments according to his/her familiarity to the topic explored, and to research on using ...
G. Muresan, M. Cole, C.L. Smith, null Lu Liu, N.J. Belkin   +4 more
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Replication of Judgmental Heuristics with Simplified Items and Familiar Content

Psychological Reports, 1988
A test for the effects of framing of decisions and for biases associated with the judgmental heuristics of representativeness, anchoring, and availability was given to college students. The items were modifications of the original items reported by Kahneman and Tversky, reworded for simplicity and familiarity.
Mary A. Metzger, Katherine Krass
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The effect of information content distributions on word recollection and familiarity

2023
AbstractThis study builds on work on language processing and information theory which suggests that informationally uniform, or smoother, sequences are easier to process than ones in which information arrives in clumps. Because episodic memory is a form of memory in which information is encoded within its surrounding context, we predicted that episodic
Joel C. Wallenberg, Salsabila Nadhif Fadhilah, Taylor D. Hinton, Tom V. Smulders, Jenny C.A. Read, Christine Cuskley   +5 more
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What makes folk tales unique: Content familiarity, causal structure, scripts, or superstructures?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1994
Requiring readers to re-order randomly ordered sentences into a coherent text significantly enhances recall relative to that in a read-only control condition for non-folk-tale texts but not for folk tales (Einstein, McDaniel, Owen, & Coté, 1990). Experiments 1-3 showed that embedding components of folk tales (e.g., causal structure, conventional ...
M A, McDaniel, R J, Hines, P J, Waddill, G O, Einstein   +3 more
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Detecting Deception in Children: Event Familiarity Affects Criterion-Based Content Analysis Ratings.

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2004
Statement Validity Assessment (SVA) is a comprehensive credibility assessment system, with the Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) as a core component. Worldwide, the CBCA is reported to be the most widely used veracity assessment instrument. We tested and confirmed the hypothesis that CBCA scores are affected by event familiarity; descriptions of ...
Kathy, Pezdek, Anne, Morrow, Iris, Blandon-Gitlin, Gail S, Goodman, Jodi A, Quas, Karen J, Saywitz, Sue, Bidrose, Margaret-Ellen, Pipe, Martha, Rogers, Laura, Brodie   +9 more
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CONTENT DETERMINES PROCESS: SEEING THE FAMILIAR IN NEW WAYS

Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2000
This article examines conceptual change research in order to develop an instructional framework for science educators consonant with research on learning disabled and special education populations....
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Content Familiarity: Differential Impact of Effective Teaching on Student Achievement Outcomes

Research in Higher Education, 2002
Improving the quality of higher education for all students requires researchers to focus on factors that potentially influence learning. Of particular interest are student entry characteristics and effective teaching behaviors. Accordingly, structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between student differences, prior experience ...
Dieter J. Schönwetter, Rodney A. Clifton, Raymond P. Perry   +2 more
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Receptive Grammatical Knowledge of Familiar Content Words and Inflection in 16‐Month‐Olds

Infancy, 2007
This study examines 16‐month‐olds' understanding of word order and inflectional properties of familiar nouns and verbs. Infants preferred grammatical sentences over ungrammatical sentences when the ungrammaticality was cued by both misplaced inflection and word order reversal of nouns and verbs.
Melanie, Soderstrom, Katherine S, White, Erin, Conwell, James L, Morgan   +3 more
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Disregarding familiarity during recollection attempts: Content-specific recapitulation as a retrieval orientation strategy.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
People can use a content-specific recapitulation strategy to trigger memories (i.e., mentally reinstating encoding conditions), but how people deploy this strategy is unclear. Is recapitulation naturally used to guide all recollection attempts, or is it only used selectively, after retrieving incomplete information that requires additional monitoring ...
Stephen J, Gray, David A, Gallo
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