Assessed alternate form reliability and equivalency for the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) in a clinical sample. A test-retest, counterbalanced design was utilized with a diagnostically heterogenous group of 85 VA Medical Center patients. The mean test-retest interval was 140 min. Alternate form reliability coefficients were highly significant, all p less than .001, and ranged from .60 to .77. The forms yielded comparable means with differences of less than 1 point on each of the five learning trails and the postinterference (VI) and recognition trials. Total words recalled on trials I through V differed by less than 3 points across forms. From a statistical point of view, when the alternate form was administered second it was slightly more difficult than the original. In the reverse order, the two measures were comparable. Overall, differences between forms lacked clinical significance and the tests were judged to be equivalent measures.
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of information-gap tasks on field-dependent (FD) and field-independent (FI) EFL learners' reading comprehension. For this purpose, 61 learners out of a total number of 120 existing intermediate learners studying at a language school in Tehran were chosen through their performance on a piloted sample Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) and subsequently on the Group Embedded Figure Test (GEFT). Overall, there were 33 FD and 28 FI learners undergoing the information-gap task treatment. Furthermore, an independent samples t-test was run on the mean scores of the two groups on the reading section of the sample PET, thereby proving that they were homogeneous at the outset in terms of their reading. Another sample PET reading section was administered as the posttest of the study after each group was exposed to 15 treatment sessions. At the end of the instruction, another independent samples t-test was run on the mean scores of
High-risk and low-risk participants (defined on the basis of presence or absence of family history of alcohol problems) were compared on reactions to positive and negative mood inductions and a nonalcoholic beer taste test that followed. After the negative induction, high-risk participants experienced negative affect more intensely than low-risk participants. In the taste test, high-risk participants drank more nonalcoholic beer than low-risk participants. The results imply that high-risk participants, compared with low-risk participants, (a) are more reactive to negative emotion-arousing stimuli and (b) are more strongly motivated to drink alcohol in negative emotion-arousing situations.
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