of psycholinguistic research is to devise an explanatory account of the mental operations that underlie these linguistic abilities. In pursuing this goal, we have adopted what we call the Competence Hypothesis as a methodological principle. We assume that an explanatory model of human language performance

in an interactive learning environment—even one that is not expressive— can have a strong positive effect on student’s perception of their learning experience. The study also demonstrates the interesting effect of multiple types of explanatory behaviors on both affective perception and learning performance.

the importance of high socioeconomic status (SES) for achievement and low SES and residential instability for behavioral/emotional outcomes. The third section identifies 3 pathways (institutional resources, relationships, and norms/collective efficacy) through which neighborhoods might influence development

Association between physician explanatory behaviors and substandard care in adjudicated cases in Japan

underlying their construc-tion, and do not produce explanations of the behaviors they predict. This paper shows how to combine qualita-tive and quantitative models to produce a new class of self-explanatory simulations which combine the advan-tages of both kinds of reasoning. Self-explanat*ory sim

Ranney, M., & Schank, P. (1998). Toward an integration of the social and the scientific: Observing, modeling, and promoting the explanatory coherence of reasoning. In S. Read & L. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior (pp. 245-274).

Self-explanatory simulators combine qualitative and quantitative models to produce results that have both numerical behaviors and explicit qualitative causal structure. A problem that can arise in such simulations is jitter, a back and forth changing of a comparison that at first glance appears

This paper investigates the explanatory role, in scientific theories, of the no-tion of representation and other kindred notions, such as the notions of in-formation and coding. I develop a simple account of the use of the notion of a representation, or more specifically the notion of an inner map

We present Pika, an implemented self-explanatory simulator that is more than 5000 times faster than SimGen Mk2 [ Forbus and Falkenhainer, 1992 ] , the previous state of the art. Like SimGen, Pika automatically prepares and runs a numeric simulation of a physical device specified as a

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