ECO-4106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Executive Functions, Stroop Effect, Cortisol
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Behavioral module 11: behavioral development economics // fall 2017. A variety of studies point to a correlation between poverty and counterproductive behavior. These behaviors are troubling in their own right, but they are particularly troubling because they can further deepen poverty. Preoccupations with pressing budgetary concerns leave fewer cognitive resources available to guide choice and action. We define poverty broadly as the gap between one"s needs and the resources available to fulfill them. Our hypothesis and tests focus on an immediate impact of poverty on cognition: budgetary preoccupations can in real time impede cognitive function. Four experiments with shoppers at a new jersey mall, income range 20,000-70,000. In experiment 1, participants (n = 101) were presented with four hypothetical scenarios a few minutes apart. Raven"s progressive matrices and a spatial compatibility task. The raven"s test involves a sequence of shapes with one shape missing (27).
