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Instructor presence effect: Liking does not always lead to learning
(Elsevier, 2018-07-01)Online education provides the opportunity to present lecture material to students in different formats or modalities, however there is debate about which lecture formats are best. Here, we conducted four experiments with ... -
An Integrative Cognitive-Motivational Model of Student Motivation to Engage in Activities for Development of Professional Competencies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)This paper introduces an integrative, cognitive model of motivation, expanding on work by Bandura (1977) and Vroom (1964), to gain insight into students’ participation in activities to promote their development of professional ... -
Inter-item associations and memory for order
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-26)Remembering the order in which a sequence of events occurred can be an invaluable function of memory. Although important, the quality of memory for order information has been shown to be significantly affected by the way ... -
The interaction between retrieval and encoding processes in memory
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)In memory, encoding and retrieval are often conceived of as two separate processes. However, there is substantial evidence to suggest that this view is wrong—that they are instead highly interdependent processes. One recent ... -
The Interdependence of Attention, Memory, and Performance Based Reward
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-15)Attention is frequently described as a distinct process with distinct effects, and many researchers have suggested that it has a distinct place in the brain. And yet attention is necessarily entangled with the systems ... -
Interfering with episodic memory for words and pictures to uncover their representational codes
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-09)In this thesis, a divided attention paradigm was used to infer the representational codes used by words and pictures in long-term memory. Semantically categorized lists of words (Expt. 1) or pictures (Expt. 2, 3, 4, and ... -
Interfering With Memory Retrieval: The Cost of Doing Two Things at Once
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)A dual-task paradigm was used to infer the processes critical for episodic memory retrieval by measuring susceptibility to memory interference from different distracting tasks. Research suggests that retrieval interference ... -
Interpersonal Consequences of Self-Disclosures: The effect of self-esteem on perceived risks of self-disclosure
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Frequency of self-disclosure has been linked to many benefits for relationships, but people tend to dislike those who frequently disclose negativity. Individuals lower in self-esteem (LSEs) self-disclose less than individuals ... -
The interpersonal context of desire: Exploring associations between sexual desire, relationship satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)Research has consistently shown that sexual desire, the motivation to seek out or become receptive to sexual stimulation, is associated with positive intrapersonal and interpersonal outcomes (Chao et al., 2011; Dosch, ... -
Interpreting statements from others: The role of temperament, teasing experience, and social dominance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)The ambiguity of our language system requires that listeners go beyond the words uttered, integrate contextual information, and recognize speaker cues in order to fully appreciate the intended meaning in messages. ... -
Intuitive Confidence Reflects Speed of Initial Responses in Point Spread Predictions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-24)Previous research has revealed that intuitive confidence is an important predictor of how people choose between intuitive and non-intuitive alternatives. Two studies were conducted to investigate the determinants of intuitive ... -
Investigating Children’s Naturalistic Explorations in a Living History Museum
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-12)Researchers have taken the approach of examining children’s learning in more naturalistic settings such as museums, science centers, and zoos (e.g., Sobel & Jipson, 2015), as in-lab experiments do not resemble the situations ... -
Investigating positive and threat-based awe in natural and built environments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-17)Staggeringly immense or beautiful awe-inspiring structures, such as religious monumental architecture, have long been important to human culture and society. With the emerging psychological literature on awe, a nascent ... -
Investigating Spatial Working Memory and Saccadic Remapping Processes in Healthy Young and Elderly Participants
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Additional cognitive deficits, including impairments in spatial working memory and/or saccadic remapping processes, have recently been implicated in unilateral neglect – a neurological condition classically characterized ... -
Investigating the frequency of spontaneously generated social and temporal between-individual comparisons
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-23)Social and temporal comparison researchers to date have only looked at comparisons involving the self. The present investigation aims to extend comparison theory by examining social and temporal comparisons people make of ... -
Investigating the Impact of the 2012 Canadian Graphic Health Warning Label Revisions: Findings from the ITC Canada Survey
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)Background: Approximately 100 Canadians die every day from smoking-related illnesses. Health warnings labels (HWLs) on cigarette packages are a highly cost-effective strategy to inform the public on the health risks of ... -
Investigating the relation between boredom and media multitasking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks is based in media. Despite the abundance of research devoted to understanding the antecedents of media multitasking, little ... -
An Investigation into the Self-deployment of Attentional Reminders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-24)In a series of studies, we sought to determine whether 1) people will self-deploy attentional reminders when asked to complete an attentionally demanding task (Experiment 1 & 2), 2) people modulate the number of attentional ... -
The Investigation of Long-term Cognitive Changes after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury using Novel and Sensitive Measures
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-24)Memory and concentration problems are frequently reported long after experiencing a mild traumatic brain injury (mild TBI), though conflict with null findings of deficits on standard neuropsychological tests. Experimental ... -
An Investigation of Perceptions of Partner Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-27)To date, only two studies have examined the accuracy of people’s perceptions of their romantic partners’ sexual satisfaction. These have yielded inconsistent results, with one study suggesting that men tend to overestimate ...