A Study On The Attention Switching In Working Memory Of Internet-Game Addicts

The attention switching is one of the most important execution functions of the working memory. It refers to situations in accordance with mission objectives and changes in perception and response bias for the reorganization of the internal control process. These perceptual and response bias, also known as attention-set.The capacity of attention conversion is one of the main factrs of attention structure. This thesis aims to compare those teenagers who addict to the games with those who are normal, argues that whether the difference exists in them and explores the characteristics payed attention by those who addict to the games and the internet, and try to use the experiments to show whether the attention shifting ability would be weaken in the memory of the internet addition.In this study,the screening questionnaire distinguish addiction group and control group. The two groups are required to complete the conversion task, namely, verbal tasks, visual spatial tasks and mixed tasks.Drewing the experimental design of A.Kübler (2005) study on cocaine users in the attention switching of working memory. Experiment was performed at the Baddeley and Hitch working memory modle.Containing the three task, verbal tasks to emphasize that in the voice conversion loop of attention, visual spatial tasks in visual-spatial Sketchpad in the attention of the conversion, mixed-task refers to the phonological loop and visual-spatial Sketchpad in the conversion of the note. The consequence of the study indicates that:It exists the prominent differences between the problem group with the well-balanced ones on the skills of the attention switching of working memory.The problem group did best in the verbal tasks and did worst in the visual task.