generation effect

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variation in health status arising from the different causal factors of disease to which each successive generation born is exposed as it passes through life.

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It is well documented that a common underlying characteristic of these learning strategies is the generation effect (Bertsch, Pesta, Wiscott & McDaniel, 2007).

WORD FREQUENCY AND GENERATION EFFECTS IN FREE RECALL

Recently, however, notable differences in political predisposition and voting patterns between the young and the old brought the old debates about the generation effect to the front.

The effects of generational identification accessibility and normative fit on hostile media perception

No significant generation effect was found for social status (p = .553), leisure and freedom (p = .295), or relationship reward (p = .732).

Generational differences in work values in China

Chief Inspector and officer-in-charge of Tsholotsho Police Station, Muyambirwa Muzzah told the Chronicle that the cyanide poisoning of animals triggers the fourth generation effect, "What they were doing is very cruel because it does not end with the death of the elephants," he said.

41 elephants killed with cyanide in Zimbabwe

The modeling of this heat generation effect is complex.

Multiphysics in the design of lithium-ion batteries: the increasing complexity of the now de facto advanced electric energy system demands design analyses employing a multitude of physical parameters

They believe that the employment generation effect of the ecozone will also serve to preserve the forests, which are now being exploited because of lack of livelihood opportunities in the lowland.

Philippines : NEDA sees Casiguran s economic potential as agro-aqua, ecotourism zone

This method of presentation of the material makes use of a broad conceptualization of the generation effect (see Bertsch, Pesta, Wiscott, & McDaniel, 2007, for a review/meta analysis).

Brief report: teaching history of psychology for the historically challenged instructor

Similar slops zero at the late times represent that heat generation effect is counteracted.

Study of local thermal nonequilibrium in porous media due to temperature sudden change and heat generation/Vietinio siluminio nepusiausvirumo priklausomybes nuo staigiu temperaturos pokyciu ir silumos generavimo poringoje aplinkoje tyrimas

Cognitive operations and the generation effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15(4), 669-675.

?Can generation effect produce false memories?/?Puede el efecto de generacion producir falsas memorias?/?Pode produzir falsas memorias o efeito de geracao?

* Glacier[R] Frost White new generation effect pigment based on synthetic mica, offering the whitest white pearl.

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The generation effect is not an artifact: Generating makes words distinctive.

Influencia de las variables psicolinguisticas sobre el efecto de generacion

As is usually the case when considering age, one is faced with considerations of a cohort versus generation effect. It is reasonable to assume that older Americans have functional or rational reasons for embracing religion, given that they have seen more of life's frustrations and sorrows, and that they are nearing life's endpoint of death.

Religion Most Important to Blacks, Women, and Older Americans; Self-reported importance of religion decreases with education