Examples of task

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To introduce the tasks, the following information was provided on the cover page of the booklets.
Across both tasks, children were given two naming trials each.
Table 2 gives the average performance of the foreign learners in both word categorization tasks.
The speech discrimination test was given after the glide tasks in a separate session.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
Memory was included in the model because the four tasks all involved memory learning.
Given these varied findings, in the present study we sought to measure general phonological processing using tasks of speeded naming, nonword repetition, and phonological awareness.
Developing appropriate tasks for children in their preschool years is difficult for two reasons.
I tasked myself not to make fewer than ten a day; in the end one day had been omitted.
In these contexts, equitable marital relations are perceived as those in which the wife performs most of the household tasks.
If a befriender feels that they are actually friends with the client, they may undertake caring tasks which are beyond the scheme's guidelines.
A final source of the conflicting results may lie in the left - right and yes - no decision tasks.
The tasks were presented live by the first author.
Studies that observe 2-year-olds in verb fast-mapping tasks would be useful in choosing between these accounts.
Team leaders used confidence data to prioritize tasks in light of changing requirements.
Generic tasks as building blocks for knowledgebased systems: the diagnosis and routine design examples.
In addition, dependencies of these tasks were delayed themselves, thus affecting the utilization of the other resources.
Characterizing the discourse functions of linguistic expressions is surely one of the most difficult tasks in linguistic analysis.
Like cooking, cleaning, shopping, and washing, men can do it too, but the societal perception is that these are women's tasks or feminine gendered activities.
Almost every explorer described his tasks in developing and allocating human and physical resources.
Double dissociations of memory and executive functions in working memory tasks following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man.
We used tasks that measure speed of information processing as well as tasks that measure non-speed related memory processes.
Whatever the explanation, it draws attention to the need in future studies to take into greater account the inherent demands of different tasks.
In the present study, cognition associated with frontal lobe function was assessed with three computer-administered tasks.
The tests were carried out as the last of a battery of eye-movement tasks, including smooth pursuit and prosaccade tasks.
Refixation tasks and antisaccade tasks are typically used to elicit volitional saccadic eye movements.
The revision of tasks was little discussed and clarified, and led to all kinds of problems in the everyday division of responsibilities.
Since this has not yet been done, it is one of the most pressing tasks in this field of research.
The medial cortex of reptiles does not appear to be involved in other tasks that are mediated by the hippocampus of mammals.
Such tasks would favor specialization of each hand, with prolonged practice leading to increased differences between the hands.
However, most studies of hand skill tested performance on unimanual tasks that have a clear division of labor between the hands.
An initial warm-up conversation was followed by four narrative tasks in which the child was expected to produce at least one narrative.
Following completion of the first story episode, the referent identification and picture-naming tasks were re-administered.
In designing tasks, researchers need to worry about establishing reliable and valid measures.
An important question is to determine what specific features of their tasks enhance children's understanding of the experimenter's intentions.
In both studies we investigated children's ability to choose the appropriate conjunction in two cloze tasks.
In the current study, several methodological factors may have contributed to the close association between articulation and nonword repetition tasks.
We define tactical missions here as complex tasks to be performed using tactical behavior in an environment.
Each domain has speci®c tasks to be performed.
In order for cooperation to be rational, participants must have a certain degree of confidence in each other's competence to complete their assigned tasks.
We have a couple of tasks for you to do.
Even though the processing group never produced the structure, they performed just as well as the traditional group on production tasks.
Reaction time and accuracy on the tasks were measured.
Adults, on the other hand, tend to perform better on written rather than aural tasks.
Choosing and using communication tasks for second language instruction.
Indeed, where overgeneralization was concerned, the effect for verb class was the only one that appeared on all three tasks of the test.
The data from the two tasks were also examined from the standpoint of individual speakers to gain a better understanding of between-speaker effects.
The care-receiver becomes the object upon which procedures and tasks must be performed.
We had hypothesised a negative link, but these tasks are easily done at the same time.
One of the tasks of researchers is to identify these factors and explore the relationship between the two.
As temporary workers they could learn their tasks and adapt to the demands of work discipline.
The work then gets going and several tasks are performed simultaneously.
Where a wife had dementia, the husband found himself having to learn new domestic skills and become involved in intimate caring tasks.
The model is presented with a single object (a small cylinder), and asked to perform one of three tasks.
I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.
Theories of cognition and the experimental tasks used to test those theories often conspire hand in hand to overlook limited search and stopping rules.
How can fast and frugal cognition help in tasks that extend over time such as planning or problem solving?
A second empirical problem is presented by patients with severe aphasia, who can carry out numerous complex tasks.
Simple perceptual tasks might be better for revealing uncertainty monitoring in very young children.
Table 1 shows a brief suggested sequence of "ideal" tool use and manufacture tasks.
In fact, it is common observation that in difficult tasks animals may show hesitations, signs of restlessness, and the like.
Common characteristics of motor patterns were observed across the tasks between both infant chimpanzees and 1-year-old infants.
In short, the age differences reside in the particulars of the environment and timing demands of the tasks.
However, it cannot account for infant perseveration in other contexts, such as in non-reaching motor tasks.
Many tasks involve sensory information that is ambiguous, and other sources of information may be required for adequate perception.
To be sure, this will require the use of a new set of tasks.
Patients' strong performance in word/picture matching tasks even in "impaired" categories may provide evidence for the causal link hypothesis.
Economists and some psychologists exclusively employ such tasks in their studies.
The implicit memory tasks may also rely more on the encoded meaning of concepts than on the perceptual record of the items.
The search tasks, in which participants are assumed to perform operations in parallel on a single visual display are also used for the same purpose.
The food quest often involves tasks that require great risk, skill, stamina, and vigor.
In contrast, the span of apprehension and absolute judgment tasks required just one response per trial.
One important reason is that subjects do not perceive the tasks in the same way as the experimenters do.
However, their reduced performance differs significantly from that of nonclinical controls on only some, not all, tasks.
Even in the limited sample of tasks in which above chance performance has been reported, blindsight performance does not equal that of normals.
In principle, two tasks can show identical behavioral effects of different manipulations and yet be very different in underlying mechanisms.
In the following analysis, primary and nonprimary descriptors will be used for establishing design tasks through one or more design relations.
The use of a classification knowledge-learning algorithm involves redescribing the design problem in terms of one or more classification tasks.
Second, embedded systems frequently consider system and software diagnosis in the allocation and assignment of error codes during coding tasks.
Since different stakeholders can conduct tasks, we introduce the "stakeholder" into the notation.
As a simplified representation of the farm labour force, the farmer carries out tasks on both sows and batches.
Students working in pairs might be given one or more of the following tasks: essay outline/essay; progress report; review; project; rehearsal; performance.
Pitch-matching tasks require a child to echo individual pitches or short melodic patterns provided by an auditory stimulus.
There are certain tasks, such as polishing, which can only be done with abrasion.
The next most used procedure has been the observation of behaviour, especially in psychomotor speed tasks or pleasantness ratings.
The patients were slower on psychomotor tasks, showed increased visual sensitivity and impaired attention.
Exercise of environmental control can lead to negative outcomes when it is contingent on the performance of difficult tasks.
They were told that they were not being evaluated and that they should relax while performing the various tasks.
Despite the rise in female employment, women today perform the majority of tasks within the household.
All tasks performed or questions answered by each student were scored dichotomously as correct or left blank on the checklists.
Thus, while the medium in which the tasks are performed will be different, the actual tasks will, by and large, be the same.
The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time, and are predictable only in overall terms.
Officials are given the power and authority to carry out tasks, but that power is limited by the rules which govern their office.
Fragmentation- the experience of work subdivided into a series of unconnected tasks not requiring the worker's full attention- is also a common experience.
They were seen as mindless individuals who could take on repetitive tasks.
While managers will pursue broadly the same tasks, they will do so in an increasing variety of ways.
The main tasks of the non-metropolitan districts were concerned with housing and basic services such as street cleaning and refuse collection.
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