Acta Psychologica Sinica

Abstract

In strictly controlled conditions, a 2 × 3 mixed design was used in the present research to investigate the difference of working memory (WM) capacity between students with learning difficulties and students good at learning. On this basis, cueing procedure was introduced to explore further the deficits of students with learning difficulties in WM capacity were due to storage ability, processing efficiency or both of them together. The results showed that students with learning difficulties were inferior to students good at learning in WM capacity (P < 0.01). The results also revealed that the deficits of students with learning difficulties in WM capacity were primarily caused by their storage ability. These findings indicate that one should put more emphasis on the training in storage ability of students with learning difficulties to broaden their WM capacity and improve their learning.

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