Psychological Review 1992‚ Vol. 99‚ No. 1‚122-149 Copyright 1992 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 0033-295X/92/J3.00 A Capacity Theory of Comprehension: Individual Differences in Working Memory Marcel Adam Just and Patricia A. Carpenter Carnegie Mellon University A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed. The theory proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in
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the effects of the drug in the presence of cues that were previously paired with the drug. Two stimuli are present and one will presumably predict the other‚ this includes the drug. When the tolerance the chance for overdose increases as well. The unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov’s conditioning is the effect of the drug. This conditioning makes relapsing common because of the craving for unconditioned stimulus. It is necessary to allow extinction the cues that are presented with the drug in order
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Chapter 1 Consumer behaviour Defined as activities people undertake when obtaining‚ consuming and disposing of products and services. “why people buy” Includes 3 primary activities: Obtaining – activities leading up to and including the purcase or receipt of a product Consuming – how‚ where‚ when and under what circumstances consumers use products. Disposing – how consumers get rid of products and packaging | 3 Methological approaches of studying consumer behavour: Observation
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in his cell Ron Cotton was exonerated with the help of DNA evidence. The numbers of exonerations are on the rise and this poses the question whether eyewitness testimony is truly reliable? Research in cognitive psychology exposes major flaws in retrieval of long-term memory and studies exhibit how easily malleable our memories become when manipulated. The study of the human mind is a never-ending source for exploration for psychologists‚ and although there have been many ground breaking discoveries
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A Case-Based Retrieval System for Diabetic Patients Therapy Stefania Montani 1 Riccardo Bellazzi1 ‚ Luigi Portinale 2 Stefano Fiocchi 3 and Mario Stefanelli1 ‚ ‚ Abstract. We propose a decision support tool based on the Case Based Reasoning technique‚ meant to help physicians in the retrieval of past similar cases‚ able to provide a suggestion about the revision of diabetic patients’ therapy scheme. A case is defined as a set of features collected during a visit. A taxonomy of prototypical
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* * * * * * inShare7 * * * Impulse Buying: Its Relation to Personality Traits and Cues Seounmi Youn‚ University of Minnesota Ronald J. Faber‚ University of Minnesota ABSTRACT - Much of the work on impulse buying has been concerned with defining and measuring the concept. Less effort has been directed toward determining the factors that underlie the tendency to buy impulsively. This study looks at the relationship between impulse buying tendencies and
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These cues such as facial expressions‚ posture‚ verbal intonations‚ and other body gestures accompany our words in order to create a clear message. Every person is continuously communicating even when they are not saying a word‚ thus‚ it is possible to send an exclusively non verbal message but it is not possible to send an exclusively verbal message. Nonverbal cues in the interaction are always more powerful indicators of what a speaker means and what the speaker feels because non verbal cues have
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Abstract The memory span experiment tested the theory that there is a short term memory system that is limited in capacity and is influenced by different processes. The memory span experiment included different stimuli‚ which were numeric‚ letters that sound different‚ and letters that sound the same. 10 undergraduate students recalled stimuli in the same order that was presented to them. It is hypothesized that short term memory is a limited capacity system that is influenced by verbal
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LOMA 290: Insurance Company Operations Module 1: Company Organization and Governance Chapter 1: Organization and Operations………………………………………………………………….1.1 Stakeholders in an Insurance Company………………………………………………………………………………………1.3 Owners…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1.5 Customers ............................................................................................................................... 1.5 Producers .......................................................
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New Cue-Based Feeding Policy for NICU Each year over half a million infants are born prematurely and admitted to NICU who are at increased risk for nutritional‚ growth‚ motor and sensory problems (Shaker‚ 2012). The risk of feeding difficulties increases as the gestational age decreases. Statistics show that 62% of infants born weighing less than 600 grams had continued feeding issues at two years corrected age and 29% had gastrostomy tubes (Shaker‚ 2012). Early feeding difficulties of premature
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