Measuring Information Searching Competence

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Learning the library: taxonomy of skills and errors

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Readings by all means: reading improvement strategies for language learners

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Effects of repeated stimulation on cognitive aspects of behavior: some experiments on the phenomenon of semantic satiation.

At the 1916 meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York City, Raymond Dodge delivered the presidential address entitled "The Laws of Relative Fatigue." His words set the tone for the historical background of this thesis. For students of the present generation, Dodge's statement may seem very puzzling. What is this all-important and pervasive phenomenon which he does not even feel needs a definition? "The concept of mental fatigue is so familiar that a precise analysis of its differentia has seldom seemed necessary" (p. 93)

Semantic satiation among bilinguals.

Bilingualism has been investigated by linguists interested in the phonemic and grammatical interactions of two or more languages used in the same community. The psychologist's interest centers on the effects of two sets of semantemes upon verbal behavior and thinking. Weinreich (1953) in a recent review of the literature reports several studies in which two types of bilingual systems are identified

Le phénomène de la satiation sémantique

Jakobovits Leon A., Hogenraad Robert. Le phénomène de la satiation sémantique. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 22 n°273, 1968. pp. 140-149