Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Working Memory Training, The Control Group, J. J. Redick

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

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Some papers didn"t have a title or the name clearly on the front page: only a summary, not a reflection (this would give you a b to b+ range) Conclude with a few sentences at the end for future directions: lack of evidence for critical thinking. Don"t just regurgitate what you"ve read, but reflect upon it. Point out limitations (conceptual/theoretical issues, not just limitations in terms of sample size, etc : missing in-text references. If you refer to a study, reference it within the text. The participants who had been trained on working memory improved in terms of the span tasks and the raven"s progressive matrices (the same evidence for near and far transfer) Participants improved over the course of training (they could remember more stimuli on the n-back test) But is there transfer of this training onto their performance on the.