The Impact Of Cognitive Flexibility And Cognitive Persistence On Learning Efficienc

In the field of psychology and pedagogy,learning efficiency is a key concept concerned by scholars.Cognitive flexibility and persistence are important cognitive functions of individuals.Cognitive flexibility is the ability of individuals to accurately and rapidly adjust their thoughts and behaviors to adapt to new environments according to changes in internal and external conditions.Cognitive persistence refers to the individual’s ability or willingness to complete a task.This study attempts to explore the effects of cognitive flexibility and cognitive persistence on learning efficiency.As an important cognitive function,working memory is the basis of individual learning activities.Whether working memory span(WMC)plays a moderating role in the relationship between working memory span and WMC was investigated.According to the established goal theory,learning efficiency is divided into two parts: learning speed and learning amount.We will conduct research based on the established goal theory.We explored the effects of cognitive persistence and cognitive flexibility on final acquisition and learning speed,and the moderating effects of working memory capacity in Study1.Fifty–three college students joined the experiment.The subjects were identified as individuals with cognitive persistence or cognitive flexibility by numeric–letter task,and then completed the learning efficiency task.The Automated version of Operation span task was used to measure individual WMC.The results showed that :(1)there was no significant difference between the final acquisition amount of individuals with cognitive flexibility and that of individuals with cognitive persistence;(2)The learning speed of individuals with cognitive flexibility was significantly faster than that of individuals with cognitive persistence;(3)Working memory capacity had a significant moderating effect,which was positively moderated between flexible individuals and negatively moderated between persistent individuals.We explored the effects of cognitive flexibility and persistence on the final acquisition and learning speed,as well as the moderating effect of working memory capacity in Study 2.Eighty–six college students joined the experiment.They were divided into three groups of high,medium and low cognitive persistence and flexibility through a combination of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task and the forced Sorting rate.Also completed the learning efficiency task and automated breadth task.The results showed that :(1)the learning quantity and speed of high intensity cognitive flexibility were higher than those of medium or low intensity cognitive flexibility,and working memory capacity played a significant moderating role;(2)The learning quantity and learning speed of low intensity cognitive persistence were higher than those of medium and high intensity cognitive persistence,and the moderating effect of working memory capacity was not significant.Conclusions :(1)there is no difference in the amount of acquisition between individuals with cognitive persistence and cognitive flexibility,but the learning speed of individuals with flexibility is significantly higher than that of individuals with persistence;Working memory capacity positively moderates cognitive flexibility,acquisition and learning speed,and negatively moderates cognitive persistence,acquisition and learning speed.(2)The higher the cognitive persistence intensity,the lower the amount of acquisition,the slower the learning speed;The higher the intensity of cognitive flexibility,the higher the amount of learning,the faster the learning speed.High working memory capacity had a moderating effect on persistence strength and learning capacity and a positive moderating effect on learning speed,while low working memory capacity had a negative moderating effect on flexibility strength and learning capacity and no moderating effect.