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Language and behavior
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1974-02-01. It has received 64 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural language.read more
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Beyond educational psychology: Steps toward an educational semiotic
TL;DR: The authors argue that educational psychology is deeply embedded in an objectivist epistemology, the consequences of which seriously undermine our ability to inform educational practice, and provide an introduction to semiotics, the doctrine of signs, and offer four global concepts (the sign, semiosis, inference, and reflexivity) that set semiotics apart from other, more or less related, approaches within psychology and educational psychology (e.g., constructivism).
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Implications of theories of language for information systems
TL;DR: This article demonstrates how language views can be adopted into an information systems context and distinguishes here between five language views: denotational, generative, cognitive, behavioristic, and interactionist.
The poverty of scientism in information systems
Heinz K. Klein,Kalle Lyytinen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence from the literature for two claims: (1) The current orthodoxy in information systems research tries to implement the Hobbesian program by believing in the possibility of a scientistic engineering theory of information systems design; (2) This is bound to fail.
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2: Graphics in Texts:
TL;DR: What is known about the effective use of graphic devices in texts and other instructional materials is summarized and what I think are the central issues are discussed.
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The Effects of Prior Knowledge, Presentation Mode, and Visual Realism on Student Achievement.
John H. Joseph,Francis M. Dwyer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that students with high entering behavior achieved equivalent or significantly higher scores on the criterion measures than students with low and medium entering behavior regardless of the type of visualization or method of instruction received.