APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Role of Executive Function in Learning from Distracting Lessons
- Alyssa Lawson
University of California, Santa Barbara - Richard Mayer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
The executive function skills of inhibiting and updating, as measured by the n-back task, correlated with posttest score for students learning from a lesson with many or some distracting elements (in Experiments 1 and 2) but not lessons with no distracting elements (in Experiment 2).
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