Is the Negative Priming Effect a Reliable Measure of Individual Differences in Cognitive Inhibition?Summary: In cognitive psychology negative priming (NP) experiments were developed to assess inhibitory functions. NP, defined as a slowed reaction on ...
Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their ...
Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über individuelle Unterschiede bei der Lösung komplexer Probleme. Betrachtet werden Unterschiede in Wissen und Fertigkeiten, in Parametern der Informationsverarbeitung und in motivationalen Variablen. Das ...
Preference for Intuition and Deliberation (PID): An Inventory for Assessing Affect- and Cognition-Based Decision-MakingAbstract: People differ in the way they make decisions: Some people prefer intuitive decision making, while others prefer a deliberate, ...
Six experiments are presented that examined the constraints underlying performance in two visuo-spatial span tasks. In the Location Span Test (LST), participants have to memorize the cells of a 5×5 matrix containing arrows, while in the Direction Span ...
The present research investigated the relationship between individual differences in visuo-spatial working memory (VSWM) and wayfinding performance in adults. Forty participants completed a battery of tasks measuring VSWM (Mental Rotation Task, Corsi ...
Studies examining individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) show differences between individuals with low-WMC and individuals with high-WMC. This extreme-group design was used to address relationships between individual differences in ...
In order to model within-person (WP) variance in a reaction time task, we applied a mixed location scale model using 335 participants from the second wave of the Zurich Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging. The age of the respondents and the performance ...
Intensive measurement burst designs permit analysis of behavioral and biological processes as they unfold over short and long periods of time and providing the opportunity to identify change from an individual’s normative level of functioning. The ...
Is there any need for German Language Journals on Psychological Assessment, Personality, and Individual Differences?Abstract.Leutner (1999) analyzed the publication habits of German spoken authors. Two tendencies showed up: (1) Articles on instruments ...
Development of a questionnaire for measuring perceived emotional intelligence: attention to, clarity, and repair of emotionsAbstract. Based on the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey & Palfai, 1995) a German questionnaire was ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Untersuchung hat die Entstehung interindividueller Unterschiede in der Entwicklung des aussagenlogischen Denkens zum Gegenstand. Dabei wird das Verhältnis zwischen der individuellen Entwicklung und den Bedingungen der ...
Preactivation of particular content categories in memory yields latency differences in a visual recognition task. Two Internet studies demonstrate this content category superiority effect (CCSE). Target words are repeatedly flashed for 400 ms and then ...
Zusammenfassung. Selbstauskünfte leisten bedeutsame Beiträge zur Aufklärung interindividueller Unterschiede in der räumlichen Orientierung. Es wird über die Entwicklung und Validierung des deutschen Fragebogens Räumliche Strategien (FRS) berichtet, der ...
Methodological Comments and Application Fields of Fear Conditioning in Different Psychological DisciplinesAbstract. Fear conditioning represents an important paradigm for investigating emotional learning and memory processes. With a history of about 100 ...
Psychological adjustment and school achievement during transition from elementary to secondary schoolAbstract. School transition from elementary to secondary school is often considered a critical life event typically requiring several readjustments. The ...
Zusammenfassung. Texte und Bilder stellen weitverbreitete Repräsentationsformen bei der Wissensvermittlung dar. Neuere computerbasierte Lehr- und Lernumgebungen bieten die Möglichkeit, die Textinformation als Hörtext oder als Lesetext anzubieten. Bislang ...
Compensatory health beliefs (CHBs)–beliefs that an unhealthy behavior can
be compensated for by a healthy behavior–can be distinguished into
trait and state beliefs. Trait CHBs are stable individual differences, whereas
state CHBs are activated in a ...
Effects of Familiarizing Children With Objects on Their Early Gestural Behavior: Individual Differences in 16-Month-Old ChildrenAbstract. There is ongoing discussion on the function of the early production of gestures with regard to whether they reduce ...
The project aims at an analysis of interactions of personality variables and individual peculiarities of self-regulation of one's voluntary activity. A questionnaire to diagnose individual peculiarities of self-regulation has been developed. It includes ...