w10 - Personality, cognition, curiosity ... Flashcards
Openess use to be refered to as… ?
Factor V
What two descriptions were fused to produce openness
Intellect
&
Openness to experiecne
Maximal and typical performance, which one was seen as falling in ther relm of personalitity?
Typical performance.
What we usually do.
Facets of O/I are significantly correlated with … ?
Cognitive ability
Stronger for intellect
Cognitive ability can be broken down into 2 abilities, what are they?
Verbal and non-verbal abilities
Which abilities were predicted by intellect, and which by openness
Intellect: predicted both verbal and non-verbal ability
Openness: predicted only verbal ability
Cannot be explicated
Skills that can only be learned through task experience are known as ?
Procedural learning.
Serial Reaction Time is an example of ?
Procedual learning.
How is task performance measured for Serial Reaction Time?
Difference between average time to respond to probable trials vs improable trials
Explain double dissociation between openness and intellect.
Openness predicts: implicit learning, but not working memory
Intellect predicts: working memory, but not implicit learning
What can Learned Irrelevance be thought as?
A ‘gating’ mechanism.
We habituate to stimuli that are not important
What is one example of learned Irrelevance ?
It’s harder to learn things about familiar stimuli compared to novel stimuli
What is the relationship between O/I and Learning Irrelevance?
O/I sees people continue to notice stimuli as novel.
O/I predicts decreased learned irrelevance
Relationship between O/I and Inattentional Blindness
Less suseptability to inattentional blindness
What is divergent thinking ?
Used to measure creativity
Generating multiple possible solutions through insight and intuition
How are divergent thinking tasks usually scored ?
In terms of …
- Fluency (quantity of solutions)
- Flexability (diversity of solutions)
- Originality (unconventionality of solutions)
O/I predicts all three
Engagement with semantic and abstract forms of information are associated with what ?
Intellect.
Engagement with sensory and perpetual forms of infromation are associated with ?
Openness.
What is most related to working memory performance ?
The intellect aspect.
What was seen to mediate the relation between intellect and N-Back performance
working memory
Activity in the prefrontal cortex
not openess
What theory is used to distinguish cognitive ‘engagement’ from cognitie ability / capacity
we are interested in engagement
Resource Allocation Theory
How can we conceptualise cognitive capacity ?
As a resource that is bound up in our attentional demands.
Do people high in intellect use, or have, more cognitive resouces?
How is this shown?
They use more resouces.
The inclusion of a second tasks saw equal performance for high/low intellect participants
People higher in intellect cofferred a greater vulnerability to a secondary load. True or false?
True.
High intellect people do not have access to more cognitive resources
Curiosity is more applicable to openness or intellect?
Intellect.
‘The desire to know, see, or to experience new information’
DESIRE for information
evidence is mixed for this
What taks demonstrates the relatonship between O/I and curiosity ?
Triva question task
Why is the coinflip task not seen as being correlated with trait curiosity?
Less intellectually engaging.
assoicated with trait uncertainty tolerance
