Effect of perceiving computing to be an acquirable skill upon a computer-mediated serial recall task.
Serial recall tasks assess the capacity of verbal short-term memory. The perception of computing as an acquirable skill rather than a fixed ability affected performance upon computer-based serial recall tasks but did not affect performance on comparable pencil-and-paper tasks. Computerized versions of traditional assessments should control for this.
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK. M.J.Brosnan@Bath.ac.uk
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003200:Computer User Training / Q000379:methods*; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D012691:Serial Learning; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014706:Verbal Learning