Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cogmed, Working Memory Training, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3442F/G
• Professor: Dr.Ansari

Document Summary

Key concept: near transfer = training improves trained or similar untrained tasks. Eg working memory training improves working memory on untrained tasks. Far transfer = training improves performance on dissimilar, untrained tasks. Notion of providing foundation for skills rather than training skills. Training of working memory in children with adhd - cited over 680x. Children w adhd 7 in training group & another 7 in control group. Experimental group trained on wm tasks - control exposed to same task but no wm manipulation. Extremely small sample size adhd isn"t the same for every child (in-group variability) Trained for 5-6 weeks, 25 mins per day; on spatial span, digit span, letter span. Importance of looking at data; pattern of data shows driven by nonsigni cant interaction increases in experimental group or decreases in control. Individual differences in training gains affects transfer. The replication crisis - usually signi cant effects ,", most researchers expect to get a larger result (cookie cutter effect)