A group-administered lag task as a measure of working memory
| Autor: | Jill T. Shelton, Richard L. Metzger, Emily M. Elliott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male Measure (data warehouse) Working memory Speech recognition Lag Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Task (project management) Memory Short-Term Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Convergent validity Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Female Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology General Psychology Simulation |
| Zdroj: | Behavior Research Methods. 39:482-493 |
| ISSN: | 1554-3528 1554-351X |
| Popis: | The purpose of the present studies was to evaluate the utility of a group-administered version of the n-back, or lag task. Experiments 1 and 2 describe the construction of the task and reveal that the modified lag task (MLT) produces the same performance trends as have been observed in individually administered versions of the lag task; performance decreased significantly as lag conditions increased in difficulty. Experiments 3 and 4 established convergent validity by comparing the MLT to another common working memory task, the operation-word span task, as well as the updated version of this task, the automatic operation span task. The results showed that MLT performance was significantly correlated to scores on both measures. These experiments provide important details about the MLT as a measure of working memory, in a group- or individual-administration setting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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