Working memory capacity (WMC) has been shown to correlate with performance on complex cognitive tasks, including language comprehension and production. However, some scholars have suggested that performance outcomes result from an interaction between individual differences (IDs), such as WMC, and learning conditions (Robinson, 2005a). Reber, Walkenfeld, and Hernstadt (1991) specifically claimed...

A Comparison of Methods Used to Predict Success in Ninth Grade Elementary Algebra by Sherry Slade, Master of Science Utah State University, 1969 Major Professor: Dr. Glendon Casto Department: Psychology A study was conducted at North Cache Junior High School in Richmond, Utah, during the 1967-68 school year to determine an effective method of predicting which students would be able to succeed i...

The paper presents an explorative study regarding the relation between multilingual pedagogies and language aptitude, a complex construct associated with metalinguistic awareness cognitive processes, which predict capacity of learning foreign language. We administered LLAMA test to 67 lower secondary school students in Italy, divided into two groups: target group had been regularly exposed évei...

working memory cognitive task analysis divergent thinking language aptitude morphological parser i44160 NSA's Review of Emerging Technologies The Next Wave (TNW) is known for its coverage of computer science and engineering. In this issue, however, we take a slightly different path to present Study of Language. CASL was created as the first and only Department of Defense (DoD) UARC dedicated to...

Earlier research has shown that prior knowledge of psychology is positively associated with course achievement. But are these effects attributable to preexisting differences in general ability or aptitude? The authors administered 2 pretests to 353 students early in an introductory psychology course and obtained measures of general student aptitude (i.e., ACT scores), subsequent course particip...

a person, who is talented, performs in a certain capacity above the norm. talent is different from intelligence which is a response to a circumstance using knowledge and skill. the attributes of talent are exceptional memory, rapid processing speed, and high motivation, an affinity for learning, creativity and optimal cognition. there is some proof suggests that certain aspects of talent are re...

This study investigated how various child-internal and child-external factors predict English L2 children’s acquisition outcomes for vocabulary size and accuracy with verb morphology. The children who participated (N=169) were between 4;10 and 7;0 years old (mean = 5;10), had between 3 to 62 months of exposure to English (mean = 20 months), and were from newcomer families to Canada. Results sho...

An important area in AI Planning is the expressiveness of planning domain specification languages such as PDDL, and their aptitude for modelling real applications. This paper presents OCLplus, an extension of a hierarchical object centred planning domain definition language, intended to support the representation of domains with continuous change. The main extension in OCLplus provides the capa...