Lewis, Tyren (2020) The Effect of Self-Perceived Strategy Use on Cognitive Tasks. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Strategy use has been shown to improve cognitive performance on real world cognitive tasks like language acquisition. Due to the increased reliance of cognitive testing within many fields of psychology it is important to understand if strategy use confers advantage in test performance. The present study aims to explore to what degree self-perceived strategy use may increase performance on an attentional focus based continuous performance task and a working memory task in the form of the digit span backwards. This study also assessed the relationship between the demographic features of age, education and gender of the 185 participants and their strategy use. Further, this study used the PANAS to assess affect state pre-testing to explore its role in strategy use. Findings showed no significant relationship between strategy use and attentional focus in the performance of successful trials on the continuous performance task but did show a moderate relationship with response time. Findings also showed a moderate to strong relationship between strategy use and working memory in performance on the digit span backwards task. Affect states were shown to have a small and moderate relationship with strategy use respectively. Negative affect was shown to increase strategy use while positive affect showed a decrease. The demographic of age had no significant relationship with strategy use. Education showed a small to medium association with strategy use suggesting that the less educated are more likely to use a strategy. Gender and strategy use shared a moderate relationship suggesting females were more likely to use a strategy.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology and Counselling (1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2021) |
| Supervisors: | Michael Ireland |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2025 04:11 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2025 04:11 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Strategy Use; Cognitive Tasks; DSB; AX-CPT; PANAS; |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52505 |
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