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Browsing by Author "Ramanaiah, Nerella V."

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    Development of a self-report inventory for assessing individual differences in learning processes
    (1977) Schmeck, Ronald R.; Ribich, Fred; Ramanaiah, Nerella V.
    Five studies are presented-all related to the development and application of a self-report inventory for measuring individual differences in learning processes. Factor analysis of items derived by translating laboratory learning processes into the context of academic study yielded four scales: Synthesis-Analysis, Study Methods, Fact Retention, and Elaborative Processing. There were no sex differences, and the scales demonstrated acceptable reliabilities. The Synthesis-Analysis and Elaborative Processing scales both assess aspects of information processing (including depth of processing), but Synthesis-Analysis assesses organizational processes, while Elaborative Processing deals with active, elaborative approaches to encoding. These two scales were positively related to performance under incidental learning instructions in both a lecture-learning and traditional verbal-learning study. Study Methods assessed adherence to systematic, traditional study techniques. This scale was positively related to performance in the intentional condition of the verbal learning study. The Fact Retention scale assessed the propensity to retain detailed, factual information. It was positively related to performance in the incidental condition of the verbal-learning but not the lecture-learning study. Future research and applications are discussed.
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    Stylistic components of human judgment: The generality of individual differences.
    (1977) Ramanaiah, Nerella V.; Goldberg, Lewis R.
    In an effort to discover the generality of individual differences in judgmental processes, 12 potential styles were assessed from the predictions made by 86 judges across two or four replications of each of four judgmental tasks. The analyses focused on the internal consistency (across replications, within occasions), temporal stability (across occasions, within tasks), and intertask congruence of each of the judgmental variables. The findings suggested that five variables—linear predictability, judgmental consistency, subjective complexity, differentiation, and confidence—have sufficiem generality to assume the provisional status of judgmental styles. Highly significant relationships were found, for male though not for female judges, between each of the provisional styles and a number of personological and demographic variables, including scales from the MMPI, CPI, EPPS, and SVIB.
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    A test of the theoretical model of the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities
    (1978) Ramanaiah, Nerella V.; O'Donnell, James P.; Adams, Michael
    This study tested the theoretical model underlying the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). The ITPA model is a hierarchical factor model which includes five first-order factors (Receptive Process, Organizing Process, Expressive Process, Closure, and Sequential Memory); two second-order factors (Representational Level and Automatic Level); and one third-order factor (Psycholinguistic Ability). Results from correlated multiple-group component analyses of the ITPA subtest intercorrelations for each age group in the standardization sample provided strong support for the theoretical model.