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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.

  2. Content type: Review

    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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  3. Content type: Research

    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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  4. Content type: Research

    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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  5. Content type: Research

    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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  6. Content type: Research

    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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  7. Content type: Research

    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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  8. Content type: Research

    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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  9. Content type: Research

    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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  11. Content type: Research

    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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  12. Content type: Research

    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

  13. Content type: Research

    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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  14. Content type: Research

    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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  16. Content type: Research

    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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  18. Content type: Research

    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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  19. Content type: Research

    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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  20. Content type: Research

    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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  21. Content type: Research

    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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  22. Content type: Research

    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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  23. Content type: Research

    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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  25. Content type: Research

    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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  26. Content type: Research

    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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