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Four experiments were conducted to examine the effects of the intrinsic cue (relatedness) and the
extrinsic cues (presentation order and presentation time) on judgments of learning (JOLs) by using
paired-associate learning. These cues were presented in three modes: between-participants,
blocked-list, and mixed-list. The results showed that relatedness influenced JOLs no matter how it
was presented. The time required to produce judgments was longer for unrelated items than for
related items, which suggested that a mnemonic cue, namely ease of processing, might exert
influence on JOLs. The effects of extrinsic cues were unstable in the present four experiments.
1063.84 Working memory and problem representatioan in mathematics problem solving, Yan
Dong 1 , Haidong Lu 2 , Guoliang Yu 2 , 1 Institute of Psychology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
China; 2 National Institute of Education research, China
This study investigated the effect of working memory capacity on mathematics problem solving
and the relationship between working memory and problem representation of 124 grade six
primary school students. The results showed that the main effect of working memory is significant
and the higher capacity, the better problem performance. The main effect of gender is significant,
which suggest that boys had better problem solving performance than girls. The number of the
representations used by students was not significantly related to working memory capacity, but the
validity of representation was significantly related to working memory capacity.
1063.85 The cognitive skill acquisition of information reduction, Xianchuan Wang, Xiaolan Fu,
Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Skill acquisition of information reduction was an extension of the traditional theories of skill
acquisition. The present study first replicated Haider and Frensch’s alphabetic arithmetic task
(1996) to examine Chinese subjects’ skill acquisition of information reduction. Then visual target
search task was adopted for further research on it. The results indicated that on both alphabetic
arithmetic task and visual search task, subjects were able to acquire the skill of information
reduction. They could learn with practice to distinguish relevant information from redundant
information and to limit their processing to the relevant information of the task.
1063.86 The effect of task’s complexity and form on the implicit learning in the control of
complex system, Jing Nie, Zhiliang Yang, East China Normal University, China
This study investigated the effect of task's complexity and form on the implicit learning in the
control of complex system and 80 subjects were involved in this experiment. The results show that:
1.the subjects act better in explicit learning in simple task, but they act better in the implicit
learning in complex task. 2.the subjects chose their learning strategies in different tasks, they will
use implicit learning when the complexity of the task increases but use explicit learning in simple
tasks. 3.the form of the task have no effect on the subjects' learning.
1063.87 The correlation between easy of learning judgment and allocation of study time, Xiping
Liu, Ge Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
72 subjects were from Grade Two, Grade Four, Grade Six of Elementary School, 24 from Grade
Two of University. Half was male. Let Ss have an easy of learning judgment by arrangement all
the items, from easy to difficult, then from difficult to easy. After it, had a self-regulated study.
The last step was retrieving. We found: 1 There is a relationship between the order of easy of
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