Experience and the water-level task revisited: does expertise exact a price?
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New research shows that people who work with liquids in containers, such as bartenders, are more likely to know the surface level of a liquid tilts horizontally when its container is tilted than people in other occupations. Research participants included men and women of comparable education, age and job experience levels. The evidence contradicts research by Hecht and Proffitt in 1995 which found that people who work with liquids are less likely to notice the physical principle of tilted liquid than others. The findings support research on the effect of experience on spatial-task performance.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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Differentiation and sociality in terms of elicited and provided constructs
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Empirical evidence suggests that self-evaluations can be inferred more accurately in terms of elicited constructs. Thirty previously unacquainted undergraduate students were made to interact briefly in randomly assigned pairs. Results showed that partners reveal relatively more information to each other about how they see themselves in terms of their own previously elicited constructs. These constructs were considered more relevant than the supplied constructs to the specific issues being discussed.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1998
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Nature, nurture, and cognitive development from 1 to 16 years: a parent-offspring adoption study
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Research show that children who are brought up in adoptive family environments tend to adopt the same cognitive awareness as their adoptive parents until they become adults. Genotypes defining cognitive ability in adulthood override those acquired during childhood. Specific measurements for spatial ability, recognition capability and processing speed were measured and assessed.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1997
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