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General thoughts on brain training:
Lumosity is a commercial tool that aims to improve brain functioning. In general, I am sceptical of the potential for "brain training programs" to improve cognitive functioning in a generalised way (e.g., see this Nature discussion). Practice is powerful, but tends to be domain specific. So if you want to become skilled ...
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This is an experiment testing the Stroop effect, named after John Ridley Stroop who studied it in 1935, and often called a Stroop experiment. It is a classic and well understood experiment and has now become a neuropsychological test for use in clinical settings, usually called the Stroop test.
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I was alerted to your post here and would like to respond to a non-technical side of the question. I'm an Intellectual Property Assistant for CPP, Inc., publisher of the MBTI® assessment tool. I help protect the instrument's trademarks and copyrights, and ensure ethical use of the instrument.
The names MBTI®, Myers-Briggs®, and Myers-Briggs Type ...
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The IPIP may provide what you are looking for.
This IPIP Website is intended to provide rapid access to measures of
individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed
conjointly among scientists worldwide.
In general, the scientific literature tends to focus more on a dimensional approach based on the Big 5 model of personality than ...
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General literature on training and educational program evaluation
In general, you would want to read up about program evaluation in general, and educational program evaluation, and training evaluation in particular.
With regards to the educational context I found this article online.
With regards to training evaluation, you could check out Kraiger et al ...
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There are a wide variety of memory tests available for different purposes (sometimes clinical, sometimes for research). Also as Ben Brocka mentions, they can be more targeted as well.
One test I can think of at the top of my head that is available for free online is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) that you might be interested in. It serves as a ...
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The task sounds like a match-to-sample task which is indeed used in working memory studies. In this test participants are presented with a sample stimulus and have to judge whether or not following stimuli resemble this particular stimulus. Depending on the time span between the presentation of the sample stimulus and the following stimuli this task is ...
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In the standard version of the task there are "good" decks (overall positive payoff) and "bad" decks (overall negative payoff), so the optimal strategy is to figure out which ones are the good decks and stick with those. In principle, which deck is which should be randomized, but I don't know if your version implements that. There are also many variations ...
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Harvill mentions an estimate by Lord (1959). Lord (1959) presents some data for the standard error of measurement for some moderately difficult cognitive measures. While there are many caveats (e.g., the estimate of the standard error is most accurate for scores around 50% and the estimates are based on tests that are neither particularly easy or ...
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To me the most natural solution is to just use item response theory (IRT). IRT has been around for a few decades, so it is well established, implemented in a variety of software packages and provides a sensible, extensible framework for this type of problem.
Essentially, one assumes an underlying latent construct of interest, values of which should drive ...
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I would say no, there's no reason not to, and in fact it might be better, based on the following rather speculative reasoning.
In general, despite the general benefits of testing for learning, multiple choice testing can also lead to subsequent memory for incorrect responses, i.e. it can cause students to learn false responses.
Marsh, Roediger, Bjork, ...
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As stated above, everything related to MBTI is trademarked, but the theory behind it, based on Jung's personality types, have no such limitations as far as I know.
There are a few differences between the two (having to do with the functions I believe), but for a "quick and dirty" version like the one it sounds like you need for your site, it should do fine.
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