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Efrain Duarte Briceno, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico
This works states correlations between creativity and the Ego Functions (EF) in order to establish
means for human growth. This study included a 144 bachelor’s total sample. Two instruments
were used: Stimulus Sheet Form A (Duarte, 1994) and Ego Function Assessment Scale (Bellak &
Goldsmith 1994). Outcomes show: Gender is a determinant factor on three of the EF; flexibility
correlates with Adaptive Regression in the Service of the Ego; at low, medium low and the high
levels of creativity and EF, both elements support each other with several indicators; and in the
medium low level indicators correlate paradoxically.
5039 ORAL
Language, reading and communication
Chair: Hua Shu, China
5039.1 Comparing reading comprehension across Sinitic languages, Lina Wohlk Olsen, Inst.
of Preventive Medicine, HS Copenhagen Hospital Corporation, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
Investigates reading comprehension across linguistically distinct populations - Beijing, Xiamen,
and Taiwan. The score on the reduced version of a test from which all biased items are excluded,
is a sufficient estimator of individual reading comprehension. Utilizing individual student scores,
we tested for interaction between home language and grade, main effect of home language, and
main effect of grade. Interaction between home language and grade, and main effect of home
language were not significant. Main effect of grade was significant. Conclusion: Reading
comprehension does not vary significantly across the linguistic areas involved.
5039.2 Developing a test for reading comprehension in Chinese children, Kresten Thor
Nielsen, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Denmark
For experimenters concerned with comprehension, one problem is to control for semantic
multivalency in target characters. To zoom in for a close-up of semantic identity, our observational
study was conducted at sentence level, automatically providing a contextual environment. The test
had 96 items, each with one Chinese sentence and five pictures. As there are merely five options,
each item is a multiple-choice test, although not open-ended. The reduced version of the test
produced the practical technology for assessing reading comprehension in two independent
samples of primary school students in Beijing.
5039.3 The parsing of disyllabic words with syntactic category ambiguities in Chinese sentence
reading: Evidences from moving window reading and eye tracking, Youyi Liu 1 , Yaxu Zhang 2 ,
Hua Shu 1 , Maosong Sun 3 , An Hong 3 , 1 Beijing Normal University, China, 2 Peking University,
Beijing, China, 3 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Self-paced moving window reading and eye tracking paradigms were used in three experiments
for investigating the role of both lexical bias and parsing principle in the processing of Chinese
disyllabic words with syntactic category ambiguity. The results suggested that the lexical bias
information influences syntactic processing immediately. And the parsing principle (i.e., minimal
attachment) can guide the syntactic processing when the lexical bias is weak. These results were
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