Year: 2007
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Individuals with acquired brain injury-related memory impairment learned routes around a complex virtual reality town under various conditions. Errorless learning, a technique used with considerable success in verbal learning tasks after brain injury (e.g. Baddeley & Wilson, 1994), resulted in significantly fewer route errors than trial-and-error (or 'errorful') learning, demonstrating the technique's potential for training practical daily living skills. The combining of explicit, naturalistic route learning strategies of cognitive map creation and landmark memorization with errorless learning did not, within the sample as a whole, further improve its efficacy. However, closer analysis of performance by participants with impaired verbal ability or deficits in executive function indicates that people with such cognitive profiles may derive particular benefit from these additional strategies. Applications and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Author: Joanne Lloyd
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2784863950