Set-Switching and Learning Transfer

• Main Author: Johnson, C. Dustin
• Format: Others
• Published: Digital Archive @ GSU 2008
• Subjects: Executive Functioning; Intelligence; Set-switching; Wisconsin Card Sort Task; Transfer Index; Learning Transfer; Psychology
• Online Access: http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_hontheses/7; http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=psych_hontheses

In this experiment I investigated the relationship between set-switching and transfer learning, both of which presumably invoke executive functioning (EF), which may in turn be correlated with intelligence. Set-switching was measured by a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sort Task. Another computer task was written to measure learning-transfer ability. The data indicate little correlation between the ability to transfer learning and the capacity for set-switching. That is, these abilities may draw from independent cognitive mechanisms. The major difference may be requirement to utilize previous learning in a new way in the learning-transfer task.