Many adults hold mistaken beliefs concerning the behavior of mechanical motion and reflections. In the field of psychology this has been investigated in the areas of naïve physics and naïve optics. The interesting question regards where these false beliefs come from. Particularly thought-provoking is the case of errors which are at odds not only with (presumably or even actually) known physical...

BACKGROUND Originally developed to rank rewards that nurses value and that encourage them to remain in their jobs, the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale (MMSS) is being used extensively in research and practice to measure nurse job satisfaction. Since its original development in 1990, limited evidence of psychometric properties of the MMSS has been reported. OBJECTIVE To investigate and re...

A Minimalist hypothesis about resumptive pronouns is that they should be no different from ordinary pronouns (McCloskey 2006). The paper substantiates this hypothesis with respect to a particular view of pronouns: pronouns are ‘elsewhere’ elements. Just as the interpretation of ordinary pronouns, on this view, is determined by competition with anaphors, the interpretation of resumptive pronouns...

One of the problems that often occurs when completing a thesis is academic procrastination. This can result in delayed graduation, which not desirable our education system. Loneliness affect students’ performance. Globally, loneliness has been increasing as COVID-19 pandemic. Students who are working on their vulnerable to loneliness. research aimed determine whether there correlation between a...

Investigations of sluicing since Chung, Ladusaw, and McCloskey 1995 have profitably explored two approaches to this ellipsis process that differ significantly from ours. In one, the ellipsis site is created by deletion of a fully articulated TP in which Wh -movement has applied. In the other, the ellipsis site contains no internal structure at all, and its reference is resolved via pragmatic in...

The adequacy of similarity to prototype as an account of categorization in natural concepts was assessed by analyzing the monotonicity of the relation between typicality of an item in a category and the probability of a positive categorization response using data from McCloskey & Glucksberg (1978). The analysis revealed a strong underlying similarity-based threshold curve, with systematic devia...

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abstract Three connectionist models of human performance on simple multiplication number facts, commonly called \times tables," are reviewed. Also, human data from normal subjects and brain-damaged patients, which constrain these models, are presented. These human data include the problem size eeect, error eeects, priming eeects, use of strategies and rules, and number representation. The conne...