A New Behavioral Measure of Cognitive Flexibility

González, Christian; Figueroa, Ivonne J.; Bellows, Brooke G.; Rhodes, Dustin; Youmans, Robert J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39360-0_33

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“…Participants were 91 undergraduate students (47% male; mean age 22 years) from the University of Manitoba who participated for payment. They first completed a computerized task—a puzzle game that requires participants to figure out matching rules to make a trail from the top‐left to bottom‐right corner of the screen—that measured their cognitive flexibility (Gonzalez, Figueroa, Bellows, Rhodes, & Youmans, ). This measure “draws from both the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the Trail Making Task in order to reliably measure individual differences in flexible thinking in normal populations” (Gonzalez et al., , p. 299).…”

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Can Implicit Theory Influence Construal Level?

2019

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Beliefs about stability and change are captured by individuals’ implicit theories. Incremental‐theorists believe that human traits and world‐dispositions are malleable and can change through effort, whereas entity‐theorists believe that human traits and world‐dispositions are fixed. In this research we find that the implicit theory an individual holds influences an important aspect of the cognitive process, namely, the level of construal at which information is processed. In three studies we demonstrate that, compared to entity‐theorists, incremental‐theorists adopt a more abstract level of information construal, and the increased cognitive flexibility afforded by an incremental‐theory mindset explains this effect.

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2019

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“…The second cognitive flexibility measure was a computer-based puzzle task presented in Adobe® Flash® similar to Gonzalez, Figueroa, Bellows, Rhodes, and Youmans, (2013). The puzzle was made of a 6 x 6 grid divided into 36 squares.…”

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The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Pattern Understanding

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Cartwright²,

González³

et al. 2015

JEHD

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The ability to discover a regularity among an ordered set of units, termed patterning, is a crucial cognitive ability that precedes pre-algebraic mathematics skills and possibly reading. However, there is limited research on the cognitive underpinnings of patterning. There is some suggestion that there is a relation between cognitive flexibility, which is the ability to switch attention between two aspects of a stimulus, and patterning. However, no research has focused on this relation in children during early school years, which is when these skills are developing. The current study examined the relation between patterning, cognitive flexibility, and reading in first-grade children in the expectation that they would be related. Performance on the patterning and the card sorting cognitive flexibility measures were significantly related. However, reading and cognitive flexibility were not significantly related. This study is one of the first to show that cognitive flexibility may be an important underlying component of patterning ability.

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“…Cognitive Flexibility Puzzle Task The Cognitive Flexibility Puzzle Task (Figueroa and Youmans 2011;Gonzalez et al 2013) was developed by to measure ones' ability to adapt a cognitive strategy in the presence of changing stimuli in the environment. Participants were presented with a puzzle-maze made up of squares.…”

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Reexamining the Association Between Facets of Mindfulness and Cognitive Performance

Klein

Lancaster

2017

J Cogn Enhanc

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Interventions that utilize mindfulness assume that higher dispositional mindfulness is associated with greater cognitive functioning. However, few studies have specifically examined the relationship between mindfulness and cognitive performance. Evidence indicates that domains of mindfulness are related to specific cognitive functions independently; however, these data have not been replicated. The aim of the study was to reexamine the association between facets of mindfulness and cognitive abilities: perception and cognitive flexibility. Participants (N = 192) completed the Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire and computerized tasks of perceptual skill and cognitive flexibility. Results indicate that the nonreactivity component, but not the observing, as hypothesized, was related to perception. In contrast, none of the facets of mindfulness demonstrated a significant relationship with performance on a task of cognitive flexibility. The results suggest that the relationship between cognitive processes and facets of mindfulness may not be as clear as previously suggested.

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A New Behavioral Measure of Cognitive Flexibility

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Can Implicit Theory Influence Construal Level?

Can Implicit Theory Influence Construal Level?

The Role of Cognitive Flexibility in Pattern Understanding

Reexamining the Association Between Facets of Mindfulness and Cognitive Performance

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