AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Standardized Test, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Virtually all mental activities require working memory. Working memory so you can remember prior sentences/events in the book. Wisconsin card sorting task the ability to change behaviour. Some tasks demand more wm resources than others. Individual differences in wm capacity predict some cognitive abilities. The participant is ask to remember digits. The list increases in length until memory fails. The maximum number is the digit span maximum number of things you can hold in your wm. The ability to condense information by grouping it together. Look at an equation and decide whether equation is true or false. Ask them to recall the words number of words remembers if the operation span. Participant reads sentences and asked to recall the last word in each sentence. Number of sentences is increased to failure. Number of words remembered is the reading span. Reading span and operation span correlate strongly with: Better reading span and operation span correlates with better performance on standardized tests.