Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children - Working Memory (CABC-WM)

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Description

The CABC-WM is a computer-based, pirate-themed battery of 13 individually administered working-memory tasks for children, developed by Gray Shelley et al.

Components

• Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children - Working Memory (CABC-WM): 13 computer-based tasks in a pirate-themed game: The Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children - Working Memory is a computer-based battery of 13 experimental working memory tasks presented "in a computer-based, pirate-themed game that took six to seven 2-hour sessions to complete over a period of approximately two weeks." Tasks span central executive (n-back auditory and visual, number updating), short-term phonological (digit span, digit span running, nonword repetition), short-term visuospatial (location span, location span running, visual span, visual span running), and binding (phonological, visuospatial, cross-modal) domains. A guide pirate delivered instructions and demonstrations, and children earned virtual rocks and gold coins for motivation. Most task reliabilities were moderate to high. (Gray Shelley et al. (2016))

Claims

• Cowan's three-factor embedded processes model fit young children's working memory data slightly better than Baddeley and Hitch's three-factor model and decisively better than Baddeley's four-factor episodic buffer model [+M]

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Key Sources

• Gray Shelley, Green Samuel, Alt Mary, Hogan Tiffany P., Kuo Trudy, Brinkley Shara, Cowan Nelson. (2016). The Structure of Working Memory in Young Children and Its Relation to Intelligence. Journal of Memory and Language. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5157932/

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title	Comprehensive Assessment Battery for Children - Working Memory (CABC-WM)
description	The CABC-WM is a computer-based, pirate-themed battery of 13 individually administered working-memory tasks for children, developed by Gray Shelley et al.
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