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cues that are paired with an outcome is the mechanism by which we re-evaluate inferences about
causal relationships when one cue is subsequently presented in the absence of the other. While this
model also assumes the role of the association between a cue and the outcome leads to possible
changes of the associative relationship between them when the outcome is independently present
without the cue, this effect has not been investigated. The current study investigated this
possibility and found that this effect can occur under certain conditions.
1075.8 The relationship between college students’ motivation to write and cognitive pocesses,
Ellen Lavelle, Yuliang Liu, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
Although research has addressed the strategies that students use when doing college writing
asssignments, little is known about the role of motivation as related to choice of writing strategy.
This study used a confirmatory factor procedure to develop a model of motivational factors as
linked to writing processes for college students. Two factors were supported--deep, where
motivation to make a meaning or to learn was linked to extensive revision, and surface, where
motivation to just reorganize or "get done" was related to a more superficial approach involving
little revision or active engagement.
1076 ORAL
Cognition
Chair: Maurits Van den Noort, Netherlands
1076.1 The study of cognitive patterns in OCD checkers and washers, Mohamadkazem
Atefvahid 1 , Majied Mahmood Alilo 2 , 1 Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran; 2 Tabriz
University, Iran
The objective of this research is the studying of cognitive patterns in OCD checkers in
comparisios with washers.for this porpuse 60 OCD patients (30 checkers and 30 washers) and 60
controls (30anxios and 30 normal) were selected. Then the related questionaires were given to the
subjects.The multivariate analysis of variance shwed that checkers significantly differed from
other three groups in the sense of responsibility,guilt,perfectionism,perceived parerntal
perfectionism, and OCPD traits. The checkers group also differed from washers and normal
groups in the amount of worrysome thoughts.the clinical and theoretical implications were
discussed.
1076.2 Looking lines, finding figures: Visuo-spatial processing and brain damage, Braj
Bhushan, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Simultaneous and successive processing by means of matching facial expressions and a set of
matrix was studied on brain-damaged patients. Intact brain subjects required less time and
committed less number of errors as compared to brain-damaged subjects. A better performance on
simultaneous matching task was observed in the normal controls. Damage to the right hemisphere
adversely affects visuo-spatial processing and the impact of left hemisphere damage is
significantly different from the impact of right hemisphere damage on a matching task. Also, the
processing of facial expressions corresponds favourably with the visuo-spatial cues embedded in
the figures.
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