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Topic: working memory training

Seminar
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In Cognition and Cognitive Psychology

Seminar · Cognition

Psychological essentialism in working memory research

Satoru Saito · Kyoto University

Wed, Oct 6, 2021 · 01:00 UTC

Psychological essentialism is ubiquitous. It is one of primary bases of thoughts and behaviours throughout our entire lifetime. Human's such characteristics that find an unseen hidden entity behind observable phenomena or exemplars, however, lead us to somehow biased thinking and reasoning even in the realm of science, including psychology. For example, a latent variable extracted from various measurements is just a statistical property calculated in structural equation modeling, therefore, is not necessary to be a fundamental reality. Yet, we occasionally feel that there is the essential natu