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Rehearsal strategies can enlarge or diminish the spacing effect: pure versus mixed lists and encoding strategy.

30 Aug 2009 Using 5 experiments, the authors explored the dependency of spacing effects on rehearsal patterns. Encouraging rehearsal borrowing produced opposing effects on mixed lists (containing both spaced and massed repetitions) and pure lists (containing ...
rec_pub_19686011-rehearsal-strategies-enlarge-diminish-spacing-effect-pure-versus.htm


Naturalistic observations of elicited expressive communication of children with autism: an analysis of teacher instructions.

27 Feb 2009 This study observed expressive communication of 17 Australian and 15 Taiwanese children with autism who were mute or had limited spoken language during 2 hour regular school routines and analyzed teacher instructions associated with elicited ...
rec_pub_19261686-naturalistic-observations-elicited-expressive-communication-children.htm


Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds.

30 Oct 2008 The current study investigated the influence of rewards on very young children's helping behavior. After 20-month-old infants received a material reward during a treatment phase, they subsequently were less likely to engage in further helping during ...
rec_pub_18999339-extrinsic-rewards-undermine-altruistic-tendencies-20-month-olds.htm


The effect of stimulus salience on over-selectivity.

25 Aug 2008 The influence of stimulus salience on over-selective responding was investigated in the context of a comparator theory of over-selectivity. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were presented with two cards, each displaying two colors. In comparison ...
rec_pub_18751881-the-effect-stimulus-salience-selectivity.htm


Voice advisory manikin versus instructor facilitated training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

4 Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Training of healthcare staff in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is time-consuming and costly. It has been suggested to replace instructor facilitated (IF) training with an automated voice advisory manikin (VAM), which increases skill ...
rec_pub_18687512-voice-advisory-manikin-versus-instructor-facilitated-training.htm


Instructions to "push as hard as you can" improve average chest compression depth in dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

15 Jul 2008 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with adequate chest compression depth appears to improve first shock success in cardiac arrest. We evaluate the effect of simplification of chest compression instructions on compression ...
rec_pub_18635306-instructions-push-hard-improve-average-chest-compression-depth.htm


Truth induction in young maltreated children: the effects of oath-taking and reassurance on true and false disclosures.

30 Jun 2008 OBJECTIVE: Two studies examined the effects of the oath or reassurance ("truth induction") on 5- to 7-year-old maltreated children's true and false reports of a minor transgression. METHODS: In both studies an interviewer elicited a promise to tell ...
rec_pub_18599119-truth-induction-young-maltreated-children-effects-oath-taking.htm


Influence of verbal and nonverbal references to print on preschoolers' visual attention to print during storybook reading.

29 Apr 2008 How much do preschool children look at print within storybooks when adults read to them? This study sought to answer this question as well as to examine the effects of adult verbal and nonverbal references to print on children's visual attention to ...
rec_pub_18473649-influence-verbal-nonverbal-references-print-preschoolers-visual.htm


When infants take mothers' advice: 18-month-olds integrate perceptual and social information to guide motor action.

29 Apr 2008 The social cognition and perception-action literatures are largely separate, both conceptually and empirically. However, both areas of research emphasize infants' emerging abilities to use available information--social and perceptual information, ...
rec_pub_18473640-when-infants-mothers-advice-18-month-olds-integrate-perceptual-social.htm


A controlled single-case treatment of severe long-term selective mutism in a child with mental retardation.

18 Apr 2008 The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the efficacy of combining two operant learning procedures--shaping and fading--for treating selective mutism. The participant was a 12-year-old boy with mental retardation presenting a severe long-term ...
rec_pub_19027428-a-controlled-single-case-treatment-severe-long-term-selective-mutism.htm

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