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| bio | website | andydesoto.com |
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| location | St. Louis, MO | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | Dec 31 '12 at 23:49 | |
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I'm a Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where I received my M.A. in 2011. I research human memory, with an emphasis on false memory as well as the application of cognitive psychology principles to human learning, memory, and education. I received my B.S. from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
You can also follow me on Twitter (@kadesoto).
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Why do higher incentives lead to lower performance for non-rudimentary tasks? Thanks! It becomes a very complicated topic because it's surprisingly difficult to translate base performance into accuracy without making certain statistical assumptions. Research on signal detection theory (SDT) by cognitive scientists and others helps resolve these thorny issues. |
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Why do higher incentives lead to lower performance for non-rudimentary tasks? changed wording |
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Feb 6 |
answered | What is the optimal length of a training session? |
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Feb 6 |
answered | Why do higher incentives lead to lower performance for non-rudimentary tasks? |
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Feb 6 |
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Is it possible to improve reading speed and visual comprehension by doing exercises? I'm going to throw in support for Indolering's answer. Although I can't speak much to improving reading speed in particular, I'd think that things like reading comprehension and memory tap into working memory, the short-term memory store that's generally synonymous with attentional capacity and maybe even intelligence. The most compelling argument I've heard about whether working memory can be "trained up" comes from Randy Engle's laboratory at Georgia Tech, where they firmly (and boisterously!) |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 30 |
answered | Why is recognition easier than recall? |
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awarded | Autobiographer |
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Jan 30 |
answered | Does writing something down help memorize it? |
