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ANALYTICAL REASONING SKILLS: IMPROVING PERFORMANCE WITH NOTATIONS
In this study we explored the effect of notations that undergraduates produce on their reasoning abilities. Participants solved four analytical reasoning problems, making notes to solve two problems and solving two without notations. Most participants produced notes when given the opportunity. The production of higher quality notes did not aid performance when we compared the write and no write conditions and those producing poorer quality notes performed even worse in the write condition. The results suggest that students do not necessarily have adequate noteâtaking skills and that they may need instruction in the production and use of external representations. Keywords: problemâsolving, notational quality, noteâtaking, external representations Dans cette Ă©tude, les auteures ont explorĂ© lâeffet des notes prises par des Ă©tudiants de premier cycle sur leur capacitĂ© de raisonnement. Les participants ont rĂ©solu quatre problĂšmes de raisonnement analytique, prenant des notes en vue de rĂ©soudre deux problĂšmes sur quatre. La plupart des participants ont pris lorsquâils en avaient lâoccasion. La prise de meilleures notes nâa pas contribuĂ© Ă lâobtention de meilleurs rĂ©sultats si lâon compare les contextes avec ou sans notes ; les personnes qui ont pris de moins bonnes notes ont obtenu un rendement encore plus mauvais dans le contexte avec notes. Les rĂ©sultats semblent indiquer que les Ă©tudiants ne savent pas nĂ©cessairement comment prendre de bonnes notes et quâil faudrait peutâĂȘtre leur montrer comment prendre des notes et sâen servir. Mots clĂ©s : rĂ©solution de problĂšmes, prise de notes, qualitĂ© des notes
"Remember where you last saw that card": Children's production of external symbols as a memory aid.
Eliciting emotion ratings for a set of film clips: A preliminary archive for research in emotion
Film clips are commonly used to elicit subjectively experienced emotional states for many research purposes, but film clips currently available in databases are out of date, include a limited set of emotions, and/or pertain to only one conceptualization of emotion. This work reports validation data from two studies aimed to elicit basic and complex emotions (amusement, anger, anxiety, compassion, contentment, disgust, fear, happiness/joy, irritation, neutrality, pride, relief, sadness, surprise), equally distributed according to valence (positive, negative) and intensity (high, low). Participants rated film clips according to the degree of experienced emotion, and for valence and arousal. Our findings initiate an iterative archive of film clips shown here to discretely elicit 11 different emotions. Although further validation of these film clips is needed, ratings provided here should assist researchers in selecting potential film clips to meet the aims of their work