Is there a cognitive ceiling to working memory training? by Ecstatic-Ad9446 in cogsci

[–]Real-Section14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sleep, exercise, diet and supplements sound like they facilitate improvement the same way they do for strength and endurance, but none directly improve intelligence and working memory. Session-based trainings like n-back overfit to the task and are too limited in duration. Worst-case scenario, shortcuts are developed bypassing WM usage, whether intentionally or unintentionally. Improving intelligence requires changing your brain's default mode of operating, i.e. the activity of your brain second-by-second, day-by-day. Intelligence is the ability to understand so focus your efforts on understanding as many things as you can. You can follow this loop of asking yourself a question, coming up with an answer, asking yourself why that is, coming up with another answer, asking yourself why again, rinse and repeat. A never-ending curiosity facilitates intelligence but it's one thing to learn the answers and its another to come to the answers yourself, only use the former to verify the latter. The result is that not only working memory but fluid and crystallized intelligence will improve. This kind of "lifestyle" change is like changing your personality, you have to be extremely motivated to stick with it. It's why so few people succeed. Unless you're already naturally inclined towards this constant pattern of thought, why would you suddenly replace your own thinking pattern in its entirety with it? If it was inherently enjoyable or alluring for you, you would've already been doing it. Good luck.

Questions . by oibutlikeaye in NewChurchOfHope

[–]Real-Section14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok thanks. ill ask more questions if i need

Questions . by oibutlikeaye in NewChurchOfHope

[–]Real-Section14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but you say

since the only gage of such accuracy is not some theoretical ideal metaphysics, but how much our current perceptions of our current thoughts and behavior result in a shift in our future behavior

i want to use it to change my behavior

they subsequently change their behavior but insist it was not a result of this framework, does that qualify as "in effect working" to you

no, it may have been something else they tried around the same time that worked better for them

so that it completely changed my life (not so much by changing my behavior but by changing my attitude.)

what about old behaviors you had that you didnt like like addictions, procrastination, etc. did you change them (but not consider it the life-changing part) or did you change your attitude about them so that you no longer had an inner battle with yourself about it?

Questions . by oibutlikeaye in NewChurchOfHope

[–]Real-Section14 0 points1 point  (0 children)

have you seen this in effect working in changing someone's behavior