•Many parents use multiple monitoring strategies in different combinations over time to monitor their adolescents.•Adolescents of parents who use multiple strategies reported greater risk involvement.•Parents who solicited information only from adolescents had greater knowledge and adolescent disclosure.

The focus of this paper is on developing ways to evaluate teaching performance on a regular basis as a means of improving teaching effectiveness and increasing student learning in the classroom. In particular, this paper shows how an instructor-developed pretest, when given at the start of an introductory economics course as part of a preand post-test strategy, can be used as a diagnostic and d...

Visuomotor adaptation has been thought to be an implicit process that results when a sensory-prediction error signal is used to update a forward model. A striking feature of human competence is the ability to receive verbal instructions and employ strategies to solve tasks; such explicit processes could be used during visuomotor adaptation. Here, we used a novel task design that allowed us to o...

Eztended Linking Strategy(ELS) is a hyper-style strategy whose underlying principle is to control and perform (extend) a series of standard resolution clauses. However it may be treated as a unique inference rule that serially links several resolution steps into one. We have defined the clause chain, introduced the ideas of ELS with left merging (LELS). We also presented the soundness and compl...

Recently, Meder, Mayrhofer, and Waldmann [1,2] have proposed a model of causal diagnostic reasoning that predicts an interference of the predictive probability, Pr(Effect |Cause), in estimating the diagnostic probability, Pr(Cause |Effect), specifically, that the interference leads to an underestimation bias of the diagnostic probability. The objective of the experiment reported in the present ...

We consider the problem of detecting a few targets among a large number of hierarchical data streams. The data streams are modeled as random processes with unknown and potentially heavy-tailed distributions. The objective is an active inference strategy that determines, sequentially, which data stream to collect samples from in order to minimize the sample complexity under a reliability constra...