Examining punishment at different explanatory levels

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...

Explanatory Diversity Among Female Delinquents: Examining Taxonomic Heterogeneity

Examining explanatory biases in young children's biological reasoning.

Despite the well-established literature on explanation in early childhood, little is known about what constrains children's explanations. State change and negative outcomes were examined as potential explanatory biases in the domain of naïve biology, extending upon previous work in the domain of naïve physics. In two studies, preschool children (N = 70, 3- to 5-year-olds) were informed of the d...

Examining plasma microRNA markers for colorectal cancer at different stages

Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as promising biomarkers; however, few miRNAs have been reproducible and can be used in clinical practice. In this study, we screened the levels of 754 miRNAs using TaqMan array in 50 individual plasma samples from 10 demographically matched healthy controls and 40 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients (10 each of stage I-IV) and identified 22 miRNAs associ...

Learning at Different Levels of Abstraction

Previous category learning research and the SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network) model of category learning suggest that preferred category level (in a hierarchy of categories) shifts towards lowerlevel (i.e., more specific) categories when stimuli are perceived to be more distinctive. This shift is in accord with work in expertise. In their domain of ex...