The Effect of an Executive Function Training on the Development of Prospective Memory in Children

Diplôme Master The Effect of an Executive Function Training on the Development of Prospective Memory in Children eng 2016 author Toellner Monika 800165 director Kliegel Matthias 761733 Prospective memory, the ability to remember to carry out planned actions in the future, is highly relevant to children's everyday functioning. The present study is part of a larger body of research that will include 250 children to seek empirical evidence for a directional link between executive functions (EF) and prospective memory (PM). The main focus of the current Master's thesis was to examine the effects of set shifting training on PM in a pre-test, training, post-test design. 80 children aged between 6 and 10 were tested on EF and PM tasks. The training group (N = 45) had eight sessions of set shifting training. Their results were compared to a control group (N = 35). While the training group showed a more robust increase in EF scores at post-test than the control group, the effect of training on PM performance was not significant. Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en psychologie 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 633 Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL) 0ca03ebe-f05b-4f8e-b140-ad51e71e2d8d Master thesis Private Mémoire Monika Toellner.pdf 1705844 application/pdf closedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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