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Efficient Cognitive Operations Predict Skill Acquisition
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Smith, Francis X., Jr
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342628919
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Year and Degree
2012, MA, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences.
Abstract
The present study examined the relationship between performance on the ALTM task and improvement in Stroop task performance across trials. Prior research indicated that the ALTM task may be capturing individual differences in facilitation of procedural memory but has often been confounded with long-term semantic priming due to the nature of the task. The Stroop task was chosen because related semantic information is largely irrelevant to performance. The study was conducted as a correlational experiment and did not utilize experimental manipulations. Path analysis revealed that ALTM task performance accounted for 11.3% of the variance in improvement in color-word Stroop improvement over two sessions. No other hypothesized relationships were significant in the path model. Results are discussed in light of the apparent relationship between ALTM task performance and an individual¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿s ability to acquire new procedural memory traces. Implications of these findings are discussed and future directions for continued research are proposed.
Committee
Christopher Was, PhD (Committee Chair)
Katherine Rawson, PhD (Committee Member)
John Dunlosky, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
63 p.
Subject Headings
Educational Psychology
Keywords
procedural memory
;
ALTM
;
skill acquisition
;
Stroop task performance
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Smith, Jr, F. X. (2012).
Efficient Cognitive Operations Predict Skill Acquisition
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342628919
APA Style (7th edition)
Smith, Jr, Francis.
Efficient Cognitive Operations Predict Skill Acquisition.
2012. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342628919.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Smith, Jr, Francis. "Efficient Cognitive Operations Predict Skill Acquisition." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342628919
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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