Effects of a Premarital Education Program for Single person

The critical need to identify children with hearing loss and provide treatment at the earliest possible age has become increasingly apparent in recent years (Northern & Downs, 1978). Reduction of the auditory signal during the critical language-learning period can severely limit the child's potential for developing a complete, effective communication system. Identification and treatment of children having handicapping conditions at an early age has gained impetus through the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) projects funded by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH).

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Reading About Persons: The Effects of Conjunctions on the Mental Representation of Person Descriptions

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185.67.1.5 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 5-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt ◽

Margret Wintermantel ◽

Nadine Junker ◽

Julia Kneer

Keyword(s):

Mental Representation ◽

The Other ◽

Person Memory ◽

Causal Connections ◽

Single Person ◽

On Line

Three experiments investigated the processing of person descriptions that consisted of a number of statements about the characteristics of a person. In one condition, each statement referred to a single person attribute and in the other condition, causal and additive conjunctions to verbally link the statements were introduced. Evidence was found that the introduction of verbal links enhanced participants’ memory about the characteristics of the described person. On-line measures of processing showed that the comprehension of person information was strongly facilitated by the introduction of verbal links. Furthermore, the results were due to the introduction of causal connections between person attributes. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for models of person memory and representation.

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Detecting Random Responses in a Personality Scale Using IRT-Based Person-Fit Indices

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000369 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 126-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tour Liu ◽

Tian Lan ◽

Tao Xin

Keyword(s):

Experimental System ◽

Real Data ◽

Fit Indices ◽

Random Response ◽

Person Fit ◽

Index Method ◽

Single Person ◽

Person Fit Index ◽

Random Responses ◽

Response Behaviors

Abstract. Random response is a very common aberrant response behavior in personality tests and may negatively affect the reliability, validity, or other analytical aspects of psychological assessment. Typically, researchers use a single person-fit index to identify random responses. This study recommends a three-step person-fit analysis procedure. Unlike the typical single person-fit methods, the three-step procedure identifies both global misfit and local misfit individuals using different person-fit indices. This procedure was able to identify more local misfit individuals than single-index method, and a graphical method was used to visualize those particular items in which random response behaviors appear. This method may be useful to researchers in that it will provide them with more information about response behaviors, allowing better evaluation of scale administration and development of more plausible explanations. Real data were used in this study instead of simulation data. In order to create real random responses, an experimental test administration was designed. Four different random response samples were produced using this experimental system.

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Choosing a Distance Education Program

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e305452003-014 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Deitra Nealy-Shane

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Education Program ◽

Distance Education Program

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