Convergence: Connecting Levels of Analysis in Psychological Science
In the past, our field harbored distinct, and often competing, schools of thought that tackled different problems and produced findings that often appeared to diverge. Today, investigators attack shared problems at complementary levels of analysis and produce results that converge. Studies of people in a social world; mental systems of cognition and emotion; and biological mechanisms of the genome and the nervous system interconnect and yield an integrated psychological science. The APS 23rd Annual Convention displays, and celebrates, these advances in our field.

Symposium

Improving Intelligence

Sunday, May 27, 2012, 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Erie

Chair: Earl Hunt
University of Washington

This symposium will discuss expansions and modifications of intelligence.. Angela Duckworth will discuss cognitive behaviors that are not evaluated by conventional tests. Susanne Jaeggi will describe methods of training that improve working memory and control of attention functions central to intelligence. Con Stough will describe pharmacological agents that improve cognition.

Quantity and Quality of Time on Task: Factors Other Than Intelligence That Predict Achievement
Angela Duckworth
University of Pennsylvania

Improving Intelligence by Means of Cognitive Training: Current Challenges and Potential Resolutions
Susanne Jaeggi
University of Maryland

Improving Human Intelligence and Cognitive Performance With Psychopharmacological Strategies
Con Stough
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

Wendy Johnson (Discussant)
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Subject Area: Cognitive