For self-regulated learning to be effective, students need to be able to accurately assess their own performance on a learning task, and to select an appropriate new learning task in response to that self-assessment. This study investigated the use of video-based modeling examples to teach selfassessment and task-selection skills. Students in both the experimental and control condition observed...

Can a group reputation of intellectual inferiority interfere with memory efficiency? Students targeted by a stereotype of lower ability had to memorize letter-number pairs (C-49) in a task presented either as a test of learning ability (diagnostic condition) or as a laboratory exercise (non diagnostic condition). The difficulty of the task was manipulated through the time available to memorize ...

Articulatory suppression has been shown to increase switch costs in the list paradigm (e.g., [J. Exp. Psychol.: General 130 (2001) 641, J Memory Language 48 (2003) 148]). The present dual-task study examined whether this effect generalizes to the random task cuing paradigm. Participants performed color or shape judgments according to explicit word cues (COLOR or SHAPE) or less transparent lette...

Auditory feedback is required to maintain fluent speech. At present, it is unclear how attention modulates auditory feedback processing during ongoing speech. In this event-related potential (ERP) study, participants vocalized/a/, while they heard their vocal pitch suddenly shifted downward a ½ semitone in both single and dual-task conditions. During the single-task condition participants passi...

BACKGROUND Stepping response may be considered the most important postural reaction to prevent a fall because it is the inability to respond effectively to a loss of balance that ultimately determines whether a fall occurs. However, very little has been studied on the effect of exercising on step execution behavior in the elderly. OBJECTIVES To explore whether older persons who exercise regul...

Two versions of a Stroop-like counting interference task were compared to examine how irrelevant information is ignored. In the integrated task, participants enumerated digits (inconsistent condition) or letters (neutral condition) while attempting to ignore the identity of the characters. In the newly created separated task, participants enumerated asterisks while attempting to ignore a single...

Abstract The current study examined the effects of task condition (TC; single vs. dual) and proficiency level (PL) on self-monitoring second language (L2) speakers. Data were collected from sixty-six female L2 learners English performing two speaking tasks under conditions. While performance in single-task involved only narrating a picture-based oral narrative, dual-task same narrative as well ...

This study examined the effects of task complexity and pre-writing condition on Malaysian L2 learners’ perceptions their argumentative writing concerning perceived difficulty, stress, confidence to perform task, interest in motivation complete task. It investigated whether dyadic triadic conditions for peer discussion modulate willingness participate learning opportunities. In a repeated-measur...