Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Psychology, August 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-149). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2000. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-76). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ56232.

The latent variable structure of the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (WRAML) test (Sheslow & Adams, 1990) has been suggested to contain an attention factor comprised of the subtests: Finger Windows, Number/Letter, and Sentence Memory. The multidimensional nature of the attention construct has not been addressed in previous studies with the WRAML. The present investigation was designed to investigate the relationship between the WRAML subtests and a diverse battery of attention tests. Three competing latent variable models of the attention construct were developed in which the WRAML subtests were hypothesized to be affected by different components of attention. The battery, administered to 120 males between 9 and 14 years of age consisted of the WRAML subtests, Digit Span, Arithmetic, Coding, Trails A, Trails B, Category Test, Speech Sounds Perception Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and a Continuous Performance Test.Significant correlations were obtained between all the tests in the battery. Confirmatory factor analysis results suggested that a four factor model of attention (Focus-Execute, Shift, Sustain, Encode) similar to that obtained by Mirsky and others, (1991) was the best data fit. The WRAML subtests were affected by the Encode element of attention in the current analysis. / Department of Educational Psychology

The purpose of the study was to determine whether significant differences exist between learning disabled and non-learning disabled children on memory performance for words learned in an incidental learning paradigm. Depth of processing and retrieval cue type were the treatment variables which controlled performance on a cued recall test of memory.Methodology. Thirty learning disabled and 30 non-learning disabled children in the fourth and fifth grades participated in the study. Seventy percent of the subjects were male and 30 percent were female. All subjects in the learning disabled group were tested for a severe discrepancy between potential and achievement in the area of reading prior to inclusion in the study. All subjects had IQ's not less than 1 standard deviation below the mean.Each subject was presented 32 stimulus words. All words were common concrete nouns with a reading level no greater than second grade. The stimulus words were encoded with congruent and non-congruent rhyming words and semantically congruent and non-congruent sentence frames. A cued recall test of memory was presented to each subject following the incidental learning activity. Rhyming and sentence frame cues were presented, and the subject was provided a 10 second opportunity to recall one of the stimulus words. The entire activity was presented on a microcomputer which also kept a record of the student's responses. The computer also generated a random presentation order, random ordered treatment condition for.Results. Non-learning disabled children recalled significantly more stimulus words than learning disabled children. Both groups performed significantly better on words encoded using deep level congruent semantic processing and cued with congruent semantic retrieval cues. At all levels, however, optimal performance occurred when retrieval cue type matched encoding level.Conclusions. Differential memory performance in learning disabled and non-learning disabled children can be controlled in incidental learning activities. Depth of processing affects differential memory performance. In all cases words cued with retrieval cues of the same level of processing are recalled more efficiently than those cued with recall cues of another level of processing each stimulus word, and a random ordered memory test.

Thesis (MTchLn)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). "February 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 139-147). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- James Cook University, 2003. / Typescript (photocopy). Bibliography: leaves 199-218.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-97). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999. / Bibliography: leaves 66-73.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-196).