State tests are aligned to standards that specify the knowledge and capabilities students are expected to acquire — the very
things cognitive psychologists call crystallized knowledge.
Not exact matches
In the 1950s,
cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven
things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one time.
Your visual system helps you make such decisions by warping and stretching the
things you look at according to your physical traits or abilities, says Jessica Witt, a
cognitive psychologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
EXCERPT: «Being in a bad job can adversely affect a person's
cognitive abilities, in that he or she can have decreased concentration, be more distracted, can make more mistakes or errors, miss
things, etc.,» explains Yvonne Thomas, Ph.D., a licensed
psychologist.