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Metaphor and Conservation in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children.
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Rittenhouse, Robert K.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1981
All of the children were presented conservation of liquid and weight problems and 12 metaphor items. The results suggest that hearing loss did not affect the solution of either conservation or metaphor. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Performance on the Raven Progressive Matrices as a Function of Age, Education, and Sex.
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Guttman, Ruth – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Administered the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM) to (N=408) individuals in 100 family groups. Scores on all five subtests were highest in the 18-26 age group, decreasing with age. Males scored higher on each subtest in each age group. Performance on the RPM increased with additional years of education. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences
An Association between High Intellectual Ability and an Imaginative and Analytic Approach to the Discussion of Open Questions.
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Michell, Lynn; Lambourne, R. D. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
An experiment was designed to find out whether there were any quantitative and qualitative differences in the spoken discourse of 'high' and 'low' ability 16-year-old pupils in discussions of problems arising from textual material. Cognitive, linguistic and quantitative analyses of the discourse were carried out. (Editor)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Ability, Discourse Analysis, Discussion Groups
Children's Implicit Theories of Their Peers: A Developmental Analysis.
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Honess, Terry – British Journal of Psychology, 1979
Construct organization was inferred from subjects' responses to a specially modified implication grid. Both developmental predictions and the validity of grid measures received excellent support from the analysis of children's theories of their peers as a function of their own age, sex and verbal intelligence. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Cognitive Correlates and Components in the Analysis of Individual Differences.
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Glaser, Robert; Pellegrino, James W. – Intelligence, 1979
Current studies of cognition emphasize the contrast between two approaches to analysis of individual differences. It is concluded that the cognitive components approach incorporates the cognitive correlates approach, avoids the inadequacy of correlational methods, and models individual differences on various dimensions of cognitive functioning.…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability
Intelligence in Hong Kong Measured for Spearman's "g" and the Visuospatial and Verbal Primaries.
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Lynn, Richard; And Others – Intelligence, 1988
Major visuospatial and verbal abilities were assessed for 197 10-year-olds in Hong Kong and 170 10-year-olds in the United Kingdom. The Hong Kong subjects resembled their Japanese counterparts in having high Searman's "g," exhibiting abstract reasoning ability, high spatial ability, high perceptual speed, and low word fluency. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Sex Differences in Mathematical Reasoning Ability: More Facts.
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Benbow, Camilla Persson; Stanley, Julian C. – Science, 1983
Results of seventh-grade students taking Scholastic Aptitude Test indicate that, by age 13, a large sex difference in mathematical reasoning ability exists; among students scoring greater than 700, boys outnumbered girls 13 to 1. Hypothesized factors thought to influence the difference (such as course taking, attitudes) were not supported by data…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Environmental Influences