When Simple Things Are Meaningful: Working Memory Strength Predicts Children's Cognitive Flexibility

Autor/inn/en	Blackwell, Katharine A.; Cepeda, Nicholas J.; Munakata, Yuko
Titel	When Simple Things Are Meaningful: Working Memory Strength Predicts Children's Cognitive Flexibility
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103 (2009) 2, S.241-249 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.002
Schlagwörter	Children; Short Term Memory; Conflict Resolution; Prediction; Responses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Vorhersage
Abstract	People often perseverate, repeating outdated behaviors despite correctly answering questions about rules they should be following. Children who perseverate are slower to respond to such questions than children who successfully switch to new rules, even after controlling for age and processing speed. Thus, switchers may have stronger working memory strength than perseverators, with stronger rule representations supporting both flexible switching and faster responses to questions. Alternatively, better inhibitory abilities may support switchers' faster responses by helping to resolve conflict. The current study tested these accounts using a new one-dimensional card sort. Even with all possible sources of conflict removed, switchers still responded faster than perseverators to questions about rules, supporting the graded working memory account. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10