低工作记忆减少了对心理对比的使用
A Timur Sevincer1, Anne Schröder2, Alexander Plakides2
1Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.
Consciousness and cognition
|January 20, 2024
概括
工作记忆能力较低的人可能会在精神对比方面扎,这是实现目标的关键自我调节策略. 认知负载进一步阻碍了这一过程,这表明对自助干预措施的含义.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 自律研究 自律研究 自律研究
背景情况:
- 心理对比是一种自我调节策略,有助于追求目标.
- 更高的自我调节与自发的精神对比有关.
- 工作记忆能力是自我调节的核心认知功能.
研究的目的:
- 调查是否低工作记忆能力阻碍了自发的心理对比.
- 探索工作记忆和心理对比使用之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 研究1:使用Operation-Span任务测量工作记忆容量的相关性研究.
- 研究2:对认知负载进行实验性操纵,以评估其对心理对比的影响.
主要成果:
- 较低的工作记忆能力与较少频繁的自发心理对比相关.
- 诱导认知负载显著降低了心理对比的使用.
结论:
- 工作记忆能力对于精神对比的自发应用至关重要.
- 认知负载可能会损害对未来的愿望与现实进行心理对比的能力.
- 研究结果为旨在加强自我调节和实现目标的干预提供了信息.
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