Applied Cognitive PsychologyTorcasio, S., & Sweller, J. (2010). The use of illustrations when learning to read: A cognitive load theory approach. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 659- 672.Torcasio, S., and Sweller, J. (2010). The use of illustrations when learning to read: A ...
fundamentally reshaping how expertise is created and shared in society. This transformation creates a pressing challenge: as AI democratizes access to sophisticated knowledge, the validation and contextualization of expertise require novel approaches to maintain trust and professional standards. Contemporary...
There is an ever-increasing understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying how we process others’ behaviours during social interactions. However, little is known about how people decide when to leave an interaction. Are these decisions shaped by alternatives in the environment – the opportunity...
According to social cognitive theory, self-efficacy is the belief that one can actually execute a behavior, whereas outcome expectancy is the belief that a behavior will lead to a particular consequence.16 Both factors affect whether a behavior (ie, adhering to guidelines) will be initiated and ...
Young children engage with digital technologies from a very young age. Often this is considered detrimental to their social development as it is seen as a
memory 32 to those observed in overweight and obese individuals.Body weight was not hugely different between the groups eating a healthy diet and those on high fat and sugar diets. So this shows negative 33 of poor dietary intake can occur ev...
the 1980s to the 2000s. However, our historical research demonstrates that this body of existing theory fails to explain an equally significant growth in subsidiaries with protean competence-creating characteristics from 1945 to 1970. We show that the introduction of the U.K. National Health ...
The present study was intended to understand how adults evaluate short social media posts on health issues. We created accurate (i.e., in line with current scientific knowledge) and inaccurate (i.e., not in line with current scientific knowledge) social media posts on five health topics. Then...
Exchanges of help between children are common and often have positive consequences. But not all help is equally beneficial, for example because some help does not provide an opportunity to practice and develop skills. Here I examine whether young childre
Observation systems consist of a rubric, which decomposes a theory of teaching quality into observable behaviors across a set of dimensions, and a series of mechanisms designed to help users (e.g., coaches, researchers, evaluators) apply the rubric to measure the quality of enacted instruction (...