Bosse, Robin (2022) Association Between Rate of Forgetting and Simon Effect. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Research on the usage of the adaptive learning system SlimStampen has yielded interesting results regarding individual differences in learning. During a learning session, SlimStampen calculates a rate of forgetting, based on the learner’s individual performance. This person-specific rate of forgetting can be viewed as a measure of individual differences indicating memory decay. Interestingly, this rate of forgetting was observed to be only weakly correlated to other cognitive measures, such as general cognitive ability, while also predicting delayed recall success better than these measures. The present study aims to further explore the relationship of the rate of forgetting to such general cognitive measures. Based on findings that associated the rate of forgetting with activity in the fronto-parietal network, the Simon effect was chosen as a potential candidate due to a previous study associating it with the fronto-parietal network too. The present study tested whether the rate of forgetting correlated with the Simon effect. For that purpose, 37 participants were recruited and performed a Simon task and a SlimStampen learning session. A Bayesian analysis indicated barely anecdotal evidence for a correlation between the rate of forgetting and the Simon effect for response time, and anecdotal to moderate evidence against a correlation between the rate of forgetting and the Simon effect for accuracy. Further research with a larger sample size could help to draw clearer conclusions Keywords: rate of forgetting, Simon effect, individual differences
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Rijn, D.H. van and Velde, M.A. van der |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology (CPP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2022 09:26 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2022 09:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1410 |
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