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Direct linkDeCaro, Marci S.; Van Stockum, Charles A., Jr.; Wieth, Mareike B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Chuderski and Jastrzêbski (2017) found a positive relationship between working memory capacity and insight problem solving, and concluded that "people with less effective cognition" are therefore "less creative" (p. 2003). This interpretation discounts substantial evidence that devoting less executive control facilitates…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Problem Solving, Attention, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedRegehr, Glenn; Norman, Geoffrey R. – Academic Medicine, 1996
Research developments in cognitive psychology, and their implications for teaching and learning at the level of professional education, are summarized. Areas discussed include organization of long-term memory, influences on storage and retrieval from memory, problem solving and transfer/use of analogy, concept formation/categorization/pattern…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation
