"the new guy on the list seems to suggest that memory tasks are restricted and
not appropriate to the learning and performance tasks"
That's not what I was suggesting. Although I believe the stroop test is
commonly used as an attention test and not a memory test, that is irrelevant to
my point. My point was that you cannot use performance on a single practiced
test as a measure of memory improvement in general. Many factors might
influence performance on your stoop test. They might get quicker at
recognizing the words or better at ignoring the distracting colored ink.
Neither of those effects are improvements of memory in general. All you would
have shown is that practicing the stroop test leads to improved stroop test
performance in your patients.
If you have a hypothesis that practice on the stroop test will enhance memory
or cognition in general, then you need to test that with something other than
the same test they practiced.
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Michael A Burman Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Psychology
328 Decary Hall
University of New England
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Biddeford ME 04005
207-602-2301
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