The ability to handle a complex medication regimen is important for patients with cancer being treated on an outpatient basis, because many of them have to take drugs for oral chemotherapy, against cancer-related symptoms, side effects of the treatments, ...
Abstract. Previous studies revealed that performance in paper-and-pencil tests of attention, such as the d2-R test, improves with practice, though the sources of these practice effects are yet unknown. Practice effects in psychometric ...
The importance of primary care in medical education is recognized internationally. This medical speciality offers a lot of different and attractive aspects. Beyond the milestones of primary care in medical education is the teaching of medical assessment, ...
Zusammenfassung. In längeren psychometrischen Untersuchungen, die sich mit kognitiven Leistungen von Personen befassen, ist es denkbar, daß sowohl motivationale Aspekte als auch Ermüdungs- und Belastungseffekte einen Einfluß auf die Resultate der Studien ...
How can prior practice be identified in concentration tests?Abstract. When persons complete a concentration test several times their performance improves, but this does not correspond to an improvement in their ability. The aim of this study is to reveal ...
”Do it again and again. And again?” Practice effects on a computer-based test for spatial orientationAbstract. Retaking an identical or parallel constructed mental ability test normally results in clearly increased scores. At first, an overview about ...
Applied psychology in the context of pure basic research and practice - a plea for more pluralismAbstract. Since the times of Wilhelm Wundt the discipline of psychology has become more and more heterogeneous. Especially because of the applied disciplines,...
The goals of the Postvention Taskforce of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) are to increase awareness of postvention and survivor issues. One of the strategies is to organize meetings. We report on the 1st International Suicide ...
Abstract. When concentration tests are completed repeatedly, reaction time and error rate decrease considerably, but the underlying ability does not improve. In order to overcome this validity problem this study aimed to test if the practice effect ...
There is new empirical evidence that the effects of impending death on cognition have been miscalculated because of neglect of the incidence of dropout and of practice gains during longitudinal studies. When these are taken into consideration, amounts and ...
Effects of four retest-practice sessions separated by 2 h intervals on the relationship between general intelligence and four reaction time tasks (two memory tests: Sternberg's memory scanning, Posner's letter comparison; and two attention tests: ...
When people repeatedly practice the same cognitive task, their response times (RT) invariably decrease. Dutilh, Vandekerckhove, Tuerlinckx, and Wagenmakers (2009) argued that the traditional focus on how mean RT decreases with practice offers limited ...
Responses to a relevant stimulus dimension are faster and more accurate when the stimulus and response spatially correspond compared to when they do not, even though stimulus position is irrelevant (Simon effect). It has been demonstrated that practicing ...
In the attentional dwell time paradigm by Duncan, Ward, and Shapiro (1994), two backward masked targets are presented at different spatial locations and separated by a varying time interval. Results show that report of the second target is severely ...