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Psychological process and experimental psychology

The psychological process and experimental psychology section includes the processes of psychology, such as sensation, attention, perception, learning, language, memory, motivation and emotion. This section also considers studies investigating complex cognitive functions such as language, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and executive functions.

  1. Reading has been widely discussed, mainly due to the published results of international performance tests of schoolchildren. The gaps generated in literacy hinder the development of basic skills necessary for ...

    Authors: Adriana Marques de Oliveira, Jair Lício Ferreira Santos and Simone Aparecida Capellini
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:14
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  2. In today’s contemporary world, relationships take a prominent role in the lives of adolescents. However, challenges related to mutual understanding and a lack of inclusive environments can often lead to autist...

    Authors: Victor Loyola de Souza Guevara, Raquel Freire Coêlho and Eileen Pfeiffer Flores
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2024 37:4
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  3. A better understanding of factors that can affect preferences and choices may contribute to more accurate decision-making. Several studies have investigated the effects of cognitive biases on decision-making a...

    Authors: Regis K. Kakinohana and Ronaldo Pilati
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:26
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  4. Studies have provided evidence that morphological awareness contributes to word reading in opaque languages such as English. However, this relationship is not yet established for Brazilian Portuguese, a much l...

    Authors: Francis Ricardo dos Reis Justi, Bruno Stefani Ferreira de Oliveira and Cláudia Nascimento Guaraldo Justi
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2023 36:4
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  5. The literature on extrinsic emotion regulation or the intention to modify other people’s emotions has grown in recent years, accompanied by proposals in which its definition is made more precise, the way to under...

    Authors: Ana Kinkead and Christian Salas Riquelme
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:35
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:36

  6. Loneliness has emerged as a public health concern. Previous research has reported its deleterious effects on physical and mental health; however, some specific psychophysiological mechanisms in healthy adults ...

    Authors: Cássia Regina Vieira Araújo, Bruna Eugênia Ferreira Mota, Rafaela Ramos Campagnoli, Vanessa Rocha-Rego, Eliane Volchan and Gabriela Guerra Leal Souza
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:25
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  7. Awareness of perceptual and sensory changes that might occur in visual, auditory, proprioception, and other senses, in the early stages towards the First Episode Psychosis (FEP), and their subsequent sensorial ev...

    Authors: Maria Lúcia de Bustamante Simas, Naianna Ribeiro Mocelin dos Santos and Aline Mendes Lacerda
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:20
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  8. The transition from on-paper to on-screen reading seems to make it necessary to raise some considerations, as a greater attentional effort has been claimed for print texts than digital ones. Not surprisingly, ...

    Authors: Noemí Bresó-Grancha, María José Jorques-Infante and Carmen Moret-Tatay
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2022 35:10
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  9. In this study, we compared visual pictorial size perception between healthy volunteers (CG) and an experimental group (EG) of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. We have been using paintings by Salvador Dalí ...

    Authors: Maria Lúcia de Bustamante Simas, Ana Cristina Taunay Maranhão, Aline Mendes Lacerda, Flora Silva Teixeira, Carlos Henrique Resende Freire, Cecília Coimbra da Silva Raposo and Georgia Mônica Marque de Menezes
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:36
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  11. When it comes to simultaneous processing of two tasks, information processing capacity is usually below par and not desirable. Therefore, this preliminary study aimed to investigate the effect of transcranial ...

    Authors: Rasool Abedanzadeh, Saeed Alboghebish and Parisa Barati
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:30
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  12. The improvement or acquisition of socioemotional skills contributes to the academic and personal adaptation of university students. The way students think about themselves and others influence their social ski...

    Authors: Conceição Reis de Sousa and Ricardo da Costa Padovani
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:27
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  13. Phonological awareness is one of the most important predictors of reading. However, there is still controversy concerning its dimensionality. This study evaluated the dimensionality of phonological awareness a...

    Authors: Cláudia Nascimento Guaraldo Justi, Flávia Guimarães Henriques and Francis Ricardo dos Reis Justi
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:26
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  14. The emergent categorization involving paintings by renowned painters and their corresponding names was demonstrated by previous studies. However, the results of these studies suggest that the colors of the pic...

    Authors: Paulo Roberto dos Santos Ferreira, Diana Rasteli Santos, Waldir Monteiro Sampaio, Antonio Carlos Leme Jr. and Felipe Maciel dos Santos Souza
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:24
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  15. To identify readers who are struggling or at risk of reading difficulties, reference standards in oral reading fluency (ORF) are used to conduct an assessment that is based on a widely reported method known as...

    Authors: Maíra Anelli Martins and Simone Aparecida Capellini
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2021 34:10
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  18. The aim of this study was to analyze the contrast sensitivity of spatial luminance and the color discrimination thresholds of the protan, deutan, and tritan axes of people with leprosy. This study included 8 s...

    Authors: Perla Figueredo Carreiro Soares, Michael Jackson Oliveira Andrade, Sefora Luana Evangelista Andrade and Natanael Antonio Santos
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:14
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  19. Discourse production is a very complex cognitive task that requires the integration of several linguistic cognitive skills. Socio-demographic factors such as schooling can impact on cognitive tasks. This study...

    Authors: Larissa Zanichelli, Rochele Paz Fonseca and Karin Zazo Ortiz
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2020 33:10
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  21. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by the fear of being judged negatively in social situations. Eye-tracking techniques have been prominent among the methods used in recent decades to investigate e...

    Authors: Rianne Gomes e Claudino, Laysa Karen Soares de Lima, Erickson Duarte Bonifácio de Assis and Nelson Torro
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:9
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  22. Working memory refers to the cognitive system responsible for the temporary storage and maintenance of information, but it remains controversial whether overlapping processes underlie the temporary retention o...

    Authors: Ana Clara Naufel Defilippi, Ricardo Basso Garcia and Cesar Galera
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2019 32:2
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  23. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences and life events on the inhibitory control ability, cognitive flexibility, and working memory of college students.

    Authors: Shanling Ji and Huiping Wang
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:28
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  24. The notion of superstitious behavior can provide a basic background for understanding such notions as illusions and beliefs. The present study investigated the social mechanism of the transmission of superstit...

    Authors: Marcelo Frota Lobato Benvenuti, Thais Ferro Nogara de Toledo, Saulo Missiaggia Velasco and Flavia Meneses Duarte
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:17
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  25. Various therapeutic approaches have been used to improve depressive symptoms in substance abusers. In a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and experimental and control groups, we examined ...

    Authors: Sara Sahranavard and Mohammad Reza Miri
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:15
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  26. Children who use cochlear implants (CI) and who are readers usually produce more accurate speech in response to text than to pictures. Equivalence-based instruction (EBI) can be a route to establish functional...

    Authors: Anderson Jonas das Neves, Ana Claudia Moreira Almeida-Verdu, Grauben José Alves de Assis, Leandra Tabanez do Nascimento Silva and Adriane Lima Mortari Moret
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:14
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  27. The lexicon plays a fundamental role in reading, but little is known about how it influences reading efficiency. Thus, this study seeks to identify which lexical factors in a lexical decision task are relevant...

    Authors: Paulo Guirro Laurence, Tatiana Matheus Pinto, Alexandre Tadeu Faé Rosa and Elizeu Coutinho Macedo
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:13
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  28. This study compared the effects of two metacognitive interventions on writing, working memory (WM), and behavioral symptoms of students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The disorder was cl...

    Authors: Nelba Maria Teixeira Pisacco, Yasmini Lais Spindler Sperafico, Jacqueline Raquel Bianchi Enricone, Luciano Santos Pinto Guimarães, Luis Augusto Rohde and Beatriz Vargas Dorneles
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2018 31:5
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  30. Achievement goals are cognitive representations that guide behavior to a competence-related future end state. Existing theories and empirical findings suggest that achievement goals are potentially related to ...

    Authors: Wangshuai Wang, Jie Li, Gong Sun, Zhiming Cheng and Xin-an Zhang
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:25
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  31. Decisions often imply trade-offs that force people to accept missing an opportunity in the past or in the future. However, it is not fully clear whether a past miss or a future miss elicits more regret. In a d...

    Authors: Luisa Papé and Luis F. Martinez
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:20
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:23

  32. We used the virtual hand illusion paradigm to study how sense of agency and sense of (body) ownership can interact with different emotional events on stress feelings. Converging evidence for at least the parti...

    Authors: Wei Chen, Jing Zhang, Yanyan Qian and Qiyang Gao
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:17
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  33. This study aimed to investigate the number of exclusion trials necessary for teaching auditory-visual relationships to individuals with autism and Down syndrome. Study participants were seven individuals with ...

    Authors: Luiza Costa Langsdorff, Camila Domeniconi, Andréia Schmidt, Camila Graciella Gomes and Deisy das Graças de Souza
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:9
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  35. This study investigated the acquisition of a serial motor skill in individuals with Down syndrome with two levels of handicap, mild group (mean age = 14.5 years, SD = 2.3, 7 individuals) and moderate group (me...

    Authors: Roberto Gimenez, Marcelo Luis Marquezi, Ernani Xavier Filho and Edison de J. Manoel
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2017 30:6
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  37. Recent investigations propose that cognitive characteristics of autobiographical memory significantly interact with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A traumatic event becoming more or less central in a pe...

    Authors: Thiago Loreto Garcia da Silva, Julia Candia Donat, Pânila Longhi Lorenzonni, Luciana Karine de Souza, Gustavo Gauer and Christian Haag Kristensen
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:34
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  38. This study aimed to investigate the behavior and social profile of Brazilian children with specific language impairment (SLI) and explore whether the severity of language deficits was associated with behaviora...

    Authors: Marina Leite Puglisi, Ana Manhani Cáceres-Assenço, Thays Nogueira and Debora Maria Befi-Lopes
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:29
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  39. The aim of this study was to evaluate executive functioning (EF) and impulsiveness in three groups of people aged 30 to 79 years: post-frontal stroke (n = 13) and post-extra-frontal chronic stroke of the right he...

    Authors: Morgana Scheffer, Chrystian Kroeff, Bibiana Gallas Steigleder, Lidiane Andreza Klein, Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira and Rosa Maria Martins de Almeida
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:28
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  40. This study investigates the consequences of bilingualism on inhibitory and attentional control. Findings garnered from studies about the so-called bilingual advantage in such executive functions are still cont...

    Authors: Lisandra Rutkoski Rodrigues and Márcia Cristina Zimmer
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:36
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  41. Behavior Analysis is usually accused of not being able to account for the generalization of verbal behavior that is present in linguistically competent individuals. However, several behavior analytic studies i...

    Authors: Ana Carolina Sella, Jacqueline Pimentel Tenório, Carmen Silvia Motta Bandini and Heloísa Helena Motta Bandini
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:26
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  42. The aim of this study was to measure visual contrast sensitivity (CS) of luminance using vertical sinusoidal gratings with spatial frequencies of 0.6, 2.5, 5.0 and 20.0 cycles per degree of visual angle in chr...

    Authors: Éllen Dias Nicácio da Cruz, Michael Jackson Oliveira de Andrade, Melyssa Kellyane Cavalcanti-Gaudino, Renata Maria Toscano Barreto Lyra Nogueira and Natanael Antonio dos Santos
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:14
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  44. The activities of daily living are routine self-maintenance tasks. Children with cerebral palsy can have difficulties, which can vary according to their level of motor impairment, in the performance of functio...

    Authors: Sueli Neide Silva da Cunha, Xisto Lucas Travassos Junior, Renato Guizzo and Camila de Sousa Pereira-Guizzo
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:5
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  45. The present study evaluated whether during a matching-to-sample procedure (MTS), the time spent observing stimuli is related to the establishment of selection or rejection controlling relationships in human pa...

    Authors: Edson Massayuki Huziwara, Deisy das Graças de Souza and Gerson Yukio Tomanari
    Citation: Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica 2016 29:2
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