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Creativity Under Fire: Effects of Exaggerated Time Restrictions and High Standards of Criteria on Creative Production
Investigates how two psychological stressors -- exaggerated time restrictions and high standards of criteria -- affect the creative performance of 44 8th and 48 11th grade students and alludes to the relation between ...
An Investigation Into the Neuropsychology of Learning and Memory
The first section of this paper will examine the major psychological and philosophical roots of modern research in the neuropsychology of learning and memory. I will attempt, at the end of this section, to establish the ...
Effects of High and Low Drive on Negative Transfer in a Maze-Learning Situation
The question of the role of motivation in learning is of paramount importance in contemporary learning theories. Motivational behaviorists feel that there is at least one set of emprical relationships in addition to those ...
Barbie as a Model of Gender Nontraditional Career Possible Self Content for Preschool and Kindergarten Girls
Girls (N = 26, mean age= 4.38 years) were interviewed using Barbies dressed in gender traditional and nontraditional career outfits about their identification with the dolls and girls' own aspirations and self-efficacy to ...
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ...
The Role of the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala in Feeding and Monitoring Internal State Cues in the Rat
These experiments examined the role of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CN) in rats' ability to use internal and external cues as signals for shock. Half of the animals received Pavlovian
discrimination training prior ...
The Effects of Bilateral Stimulation of the Hippocampus on Persevarative Neural Processes
In recent years there has been a significant amount
of' work done in the f ield of memory and the physiological
processes that are involved. One main area of research
has been connected with perseveration theory. The ...
An Experimental Study of Selected Remedial Reading Techniques
Throughout the past two decades a great deal or attention has been focused upon the correction of poor reading habits. Reliable clinical procedures aimed at correcting defective reading habits have been
brought into use ...