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Sources of Individual Differences in Self-regulated Category Learning

Morehead, Kayla Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563456095222779

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2019, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
When people select material for study, they can make their selections based on how well they believe they have learned the material by selecting easier or more difficult material for study. The goal of the present investigation was to determine why people make different study decisions. Specifically, I investigated possible individual differences that may lead people to select easier versus more different material for study. Participants completed a category learning task and a word pair association task. In the category learning task, they practiced classifying bird stimuli into the correct category, then selected a subset of the categories for restudy. In the word pair task, they studied unrelated word pairs, then selected a subset for restudy. Participants also completed individual differences measures such as working memory, need for cognition, and motivation measures. Variables were put into structural regression models to evaluate if differences in the individual difference measures predicted restudy selections. Some variables were slightly predictive of restudy selections, but none were strong predictors. Participants’ study strategy reports suggest that they believed their selected strategy would be effective for the task, regardless of whether they tended to select the easier or more difficult material. These results indicate that participants’ selection strategies may not differ based on stable characteristics, but rather on different beliefs about what strategies are effective given the task.
John Dunlosky, PhD (Advisor)
Katherine Rawson, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeffery Ciesla, PhD (Committee Member)
Bradley Morris, PhD (Committee Member)
Derek van Ittersum, PhD (Committee Member)
77 p.
Cognitive Psychology; Educational Psychology; Experimental Psychology
category learning; self-regulated learning; CLJs; metacognition; SRL

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  • Morehead, K. E. (2019). Sources of Individual Differences in Self-regulated Category Learning [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563456095222779

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morehead, Kayla. Sources of Individual Differences in Self-regulated Category Learning. 2019. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563456095222779.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morehead, Kayla. "Sources of Individual Differences in Self-regulated Category Learning." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1563456095222779

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by Kent State University and OhioLINK.