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Age Differences in Predictions and Performance on a Cued Recall Task
No full textThe notion that older adults fail to use optimal encoding strategies in memory tasks because of a deficit in memory monitoring was examined in a cued recall task. Participants were given different types of descriptors (initial letters, rhyme, category) for each word during encoding, and these descriptors were later given as cues at recall. Participants also predicted the likelihood of recalling each item. Age differences were found in recall performance, but there were no age differences in average predictions. However, the prediction ratings given by younger adults showed a greater difference between words recalled and words not recalled in the subsequent test than did the ratings of the older adults. Differences in recall associated with different types of processing were predicted poorly by all of the participants, but the relative recallability of specific words was well assessed by both age groups. We concluded that a memory monitoring deficit is not likely to be responsible for age differences in memory
Numerical Analysis of GaAs Epitaxial-Layer Schottky Diodes
No full textA computer simulation of GaAs epitaxial-layer Schottky-barrier diodes has been carried out. The present work extends previous drift-diffusion equation (DDE) Schottky-barrier diode simulations to very thin epilayers of GaAs as well as to higher forward bias voltages. Diodes having epitaxial layers of 0.12 and 1.0 µm were modeled with an emphasis on comparison with experiment. To achieve better agreement with experimental data an interfacial layer was included in the model, resulting in a voltage-dependent barrier height. The bias voltage at which the I-V characteristic becomes strongly nonideal is predicted to depend more on the potential drop across the interfacial layer than on the series resistances present in the devices studied. The separate contributions of the dynamic resistance of the junction and of the series resistances of the epitaxial and bulk regions to the total resistance were examined for forward biases up to 1.1 V
Some Implications of Lonergan\u27s View of Conversion for Pastoral Counseling
No full textNotes similarities between art and psychotherapy. Argues that Bernard Lonergan\u27s understanding of intellectual, moral, and religious conversion provides a helpful framework for seeing the processes of pastoral counseling and offers as well a good illustration of how our theological notions can enrich the pastoral counselor\u27s hermeneutic project
Aging and the Priming of Newly-Learned Associations
No full textIn each of 2 experiments, 32 young (aged 18–25 yrs) and 32 elderly (aged 63–79 yrs) adults studied 36 sentences of the form NOUN1-VERB-NOUN2. They then made item-recognition judgments regarding whether single nouns had occurred in the sentences. After 2 or more presentations of each sentence, both young and elderly Ss showed equivalent priming between the nouns within the sentences; a noun was recognized faster when it was tested immediately after the other noun from the same sentence than when it was tested following a noun from a different sentence. After only 1 presentation of each sentence, young Ss showed priming but elderly Ss did not. Under all study conditions, young Ss were superior to the elderly in cued recall of the same sentences. It is argued that priming provides a sensitive measure of what is stored in memory and so will be useful for studies of aging
The Concrete, the Communal and the Contribution of Gabriel Moran
No full textThis essay is as much an attempt to celebrate the concrete, and therefore the communal, as to applaud Gabriel Moran and the rich corpus of writing about religious education which he has contributed over the last twenty years
Tradition and Transformation in Religious Education
No full textHow can religious education change the world and at the same time hand on the Christian tradition? In Tradition and Transformation in Religious Education, two Protestant and two Catholic religious educationists forthrightly address this urgent issue.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/books/1031/thumbnail.jp
Foundations of Religious Education
No full textPapers from a symposium sponsored by the Religious Education Institute of Boston College, Apr. 22-23, 1977.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/books/1032/thumbnail.jp
Merrimack College: Genesis and Growth, 1947-1972
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Impact: A Study of the Impact of Merrimack College on the Lower Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Get PDFThe Impact study reflects principally the economic presence of Merrimack College in the lower Merrimack Valley. It is the result of long effort- eighteen months, to be precise- on the part of Professor Arland Charlton who conducted the study.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/mc_pubs/1005/thumbnail.jp