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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
Smith, Andrew – Psychological Bulletin, 2012
Reviews of the effects of noise on performance carried out in the 1980s suggested that results depended on the type of noise, nature of the task, and characteristics of the person performing in noise. This general view has been confirmed in the recent meta-analysis and synthesis by Szalma and Hancock (2011). There are, however, some notable…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Acoustics, Investigations, Individual Differences
McVay, Jennifer C.; Kane, Michael J. – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
In this comment, we contrast different conceptions of mind wandering that were presented in 2 recent theoretical reviews: Smallwood and Schooler (2006) and Watkins (2008). We also introduce a new perspective on the role of executive control in mind wandering by integrating empirical evidence presented in Smallwood and Schooler with 2 theoretical…
Descriptors: Cues, Theory Practice Relationship, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
