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Redick, Thomas S.; Shipstead, Zach; Harrison, Tyler L.; Hicks, Kenny L.; Fried, David E.; Hambrick, David Z.; Kane, Michael J.; Engle, Randall W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Numerous recent studies seem to provide evidence for the general intellectual benefits of working memory training. In reviews of the training literature, Shipstead, Redick, and Engle (2010, 2012) argued that the field should treat recent results with a critical eye. Many published working memory training studies suffer from design limitations…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Training, Intelligence, Attention
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Morsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J.; Serpell, Sylvie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The equiprobability bias is a tendency for individuals to think of probabilistic events as "equiprobable" by nature, and to judge outcomes that occur with different probabilities as equally likely. The equiprobability bias has been repeatedly found to be related to formal education in statistics, and it is claimed to be based…
Descriptors: Probability, Bias, Training, Cognitive Ability