Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of pretest and posttest measures per training condition and age group on control variables: fluid reasoning, verbal fluency, and working memory.
| Creative ideation training | General ideation training | Rule-switch training | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | M | SD | N | M | SD | N | M | SD | |
| VERBAL FLUENCY | |||||||||
| Adolescents | 25 | 23.16 | 3.44 | 23 | 22.96 | 5.09 | 21 | 23.38 | 5.18 |
| Adults | 21 | 27.24 | 5.07 | 19 | 26.84 | 8.30 | 19 | 24.79 | 6.72 |
| RAVEN APM | |||||||||
| Adolescents | 23 | 9.26 | 2.01 | 21 | 9.38 | 3.14 | 20 | 8.45 | 3.58 |
| Adults | 19 | 9.68 | 1.60 | 18 | 10.11 | 3.32 | 16 | 10.00 | 1.97 |
| WORKING MEMORY | |||||||||
| Adolescents | |||||||||
| Accuracy | 19 | 0.88 | 0.08 | 16 | 0.86 | 0.09 | 18 | 0.84 | 0.19 |
| Reaction time* | 19 | 574 | 98 | 16 | 594 | 122 | 18 | 534 | 89 |
| Adults | |||||||||
| Accuracy | 20 | 0.90 | 0.09 | 19 | 0.91 | 0.09 | 18 | 0.92 | 0.05 |
| Reaction time* | 20 | 487 | 115 | 19 | 555 | 152 | 18 | 502 | 106 |
*
Reaction time is reported in milliseconds.