Don Latham is Associate Professor and Melissa Gross is Professor in the School of Library & Information Studies at Florida State University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. © 2013 Don Latham and Melissa Gross The Attaining Information Literacy Project has focused on identifying first-year college students with below-proficient information literacy skills, gaining an understanding of th...

This article introduces 2 new sources of bias in probability judgment, discrimination failure and inhibition failure, which are conceptualized as arising from an interaction between error prone memory processes and a support theory like comparison process. Both sources of bias stem from the influence of irrelevant information on participants' probability judgments, but they postulate different ...

We propose a framework for learning new target tasks by leveraging existing heterogeneous knowledge sources. Unlike the traditional transfer learning, we do not require explicit relations between source and target tasks, and instead let the learner actively mine transferable knowledge from a source dataset. To this end, we develop (1) a transfer learning method for source datasets with heteroge...

The data reported by Baddeley and Scott (1971) is usually interpreted as showing forgetting in short-term memory in the absence of interference. Given the absence of interference, the cause must be decay. SIMPLE (Brown, Neath, & Chater, 2007), a local distinctiveness model of memory, was able to fit the data quite well with no difference in the parameters for the 3, 5, and 7 item lists (R = 0.9...

In three experiments, we examined the mechanisms by which prior experience with proactive interference (PI) diminished its effects. Cued recall tasks conforming to an A-B, A-D paradigm were used to induce PI effects. Experiment 1 showed that reduced PI was not due to a reduction in attention to the source of PI. Experiment 2 revealed that participants' awareness of PI effects on memory performa...

Proactive tile-based video streaming can avoid motion-to-photon latency of wireless virtual reality (VR) by computing and delivering the predicted tiles to be requested before playback. All existing works either focus on designing predictors or allocating communications resources. Yet latency, successively executed prediction, communication, tasks should accomplished within a predetermined time...

BACKGROUND Different developmental courses have been postulated for proactive and reactive aggression. OBJECTIVE Investigated the developmental course of proactive and reactive aggression in a large sample of adolescent boys from low socioeconomic areas. METHOD A dual group-based joint trajectory method was used to identify distinct trajectories as well as similarities and differences in in...

Recent interest in the benefits of retrieval practice on long-term retention--the testing effect--has spawned a considerable amount of research toward understanding the underlying nature of this ubiquitous memory phenomenon. Taking a test may benefit retention through both direct means (engaging appropriate retrieval processes) and indirect means (fostering directed study). Here the authors rep...