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- Title
When the poor excel: Poverty facilitates procedural learning.
- Authors
Dang, Junhua; Xiao, Shanshan; Zhang, Ting; Liu, Ying; Jiang, Bin; Mao, Lihua
- Abstract
Recent research has shown that poverty directly impeded cognitive functions because the poor could be easily distracted by monetary concerns. We argue that this effect may be limited to functions relying on working memory. For functions that rely on proceduralized processes however, monetary concerns elicited by reminding of financial demands would be conducive rather than harmful. Our results supported this hypothesis by showing that participants with lower income reached the learning criterion of the information-integration categorization task faster than their more affluent counterparts after reminding of financial demands.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of covariance; ANALYSIS of variance; COGNITION; LEARNING strategies; LONGITUDINAL method; MOTIVATION (Psychology); POVERTY; PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; RESEARCH funding; DISTRACTION
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2016, Vol 57, Issue 4, p288
- ISSN
0036-5564
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sjop.12292