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DeCaro, Mari S.; Thomas, Robin D.; Beilock, Sian L. – Cognition, 2008
We examined whether individual differences in working memory influence the facility with which individuals learn new categories. Participants learned two different types of category structures: "rule-based" and "information-integration." Successful learning of the former category structure is thought to be based on explicit…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Memory, Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability
Scandura, Joseph M. – 1973
Most current information processing theories of cognition and memory share one common feature: the structure (state-space) of memory is fixed and retrieval from memory involves searching through that structure. Learning, where it is treated at all, involves transforming one such structure into another. This form of representation is questioned and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Programs, Individual Differences, Information Processing
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Miller, Stuart; And Others – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Information Processing