Strategy Transfer on Fluid Reasoning Tasks
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Participants
One-hundred-thirty students enrolled in an undergraduate psychology course at Mississippi State University participated for course credit. A target of 55 participants per condition was deemed sufficient based upon work indicating that the correlation between the RAPM and WMC often ranges from 0.3 to 0.6 (Ackerman et al., 2005). To estimate a true correlation of 0.4 or 0.5, sample sizes of 63 and 50, respectively, would be sufficient for detecting the correlation within a stable range of plus or
Study 2
The increase in rate of toggling and proportion of time on the response bank on ambiguous FA problems suggests an increased use of the response options, and may also clarify some of the mixed findings in the task order manipulation in Study 1. Given that there are only five ambiguous items in the original FA task, the lack of sufficient items prompting increased use of the response options may explain why some of the results of Study 1 were significant, whereas other results trended towards a
General discussion
The results across Studies 1 and 2 illustrate that individuals' strategy use, as measured by the rate of toggling between the problem and response bank, is consistent across reasoning tasks, even after accounting for WMC. In addition, different types of problems and tasks orient participants towards different strategies, and participants will transfer those strategies to later reasoning tasks, even in cases when the more effective strategy on the first task is less effective on the second task.
Funding
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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