Ego depletion interferes with rule-defined category learning but not non-rule-defined category learning
| Autor: | Rahel Rabi, John Paul Minda |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Ego depletion
lcsh:BF1-990 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) self regulation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Concept learning category learning Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Original Research Article Set (psychology) COVIS categorization ego depletion multiple systems General Psychology 05 social sciences Cognitive flexibility Neurosciences Cognition Resource depletion lcsh:Psychology Categorization Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 6 (2015) Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications Frontiers in Psychology |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00035 |
| Popis: | Considerable research on category learning has suggested that many cognitive and environmental factors can have a differential effect on the learning of rule-defined categories as opposed to the learning of non-rule-defined categories. Prior research has also suggested that ego depletion can temporarily reduce the capacity for executive functioning and cognitive flexibility. The present study examined whether temporarily reducing participants’ executive functioning via a resource depletion manipulation would differentially impact rule-defined and non-rule-defined category learning. Participants were either asked to write a story with no restrictions (the control condition), or without using two common letters (the ego depletion condition). Participants were then asked to learn either a set of rule-defined categories or a set of non-rule-defined categories. Resource depleted participants performed more poorly than controls on the rule-defined task, but did not differ from controls on the non-rule-defined task, suggesting that self regulatory resources are required for successful rule-defined category learning. These results lend support to multiple systems theories and clarify the role of self-regulatory resources within this theory. |
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