Sentence examples for completing word from inspiring English sources

For half of the studied category-exemplar pairs, subjects practiced retrieval by completing word stems, followed by a delayed category-cued recall on all of the practiced and unpracticed items.

Everyone in the study who regularly did more to challenge their brains — reading, writing, attending lectures or completing word puzzles — did better on fluid intelligence tests than their counterparts who did less.

This time, completing word fragments did not disambiguate the emotional valence of the scenarios and the comprehension questions had no emotional content.

Nor were there differences in training ability, as indicated by reaction times to completing word fragments and accuracy on comprehension questions.

In experiments in the 1970s, psychiatrists showed that participants completing word-association tasks quickly tired of the job once obvious answers were given; granted more time, they began trying much more creative solutions, as if the boredom "had the power to exert pressure on individuals to stretch their inventive capacity," Dr. Belton said.

Similar to Scrabble, each letter is given a point value and players earn points by completing words in sports on the game board designated with bonus points.

In the study, participants completed word puzzles while one half of them overheard one side of a mundane phone conversation in the background.

They found that African-Americans who thought the test measured intelligence were more likely to complete word fragments using words associated with relevant negative stereotypes (e.g., completing __mb as "dumb" rather than "numb").

Thus, participants in the high-intrinsic group, relative to the low-intrinsic group, allocated more time to attempting to complete word problems during the free-choice period (90.0 % and 11.2 %, respectively).

Blank tiles are the game's wild cards and are used to complete words.

The completed words were cut out with a scalpel and carefully placed in position.