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Fluid Intelligence and Discriminative Operant Learning of Reinforcement Contingencies in a Fixed Ratio 3 Schedule
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Lozano, J. H.; Hernandez, J. M.; Rubio, V. J.; Santacreu, J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Although intelligence has traditionally been identified as "the ability to learn" (Peterson, 1925), this relationship has been questioned in simple operant learning tasks (Spielberger, 1962). Nevertheless, recent pieces of research have demonstrated a strong and significant correlation between associative learning measures and intelligence…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Associative Learning, Reinforcement, Task Analysis
Melioration as a Higher Thinking Skill of Future Intelligence
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Passig, David – Teachers College Record, 2007
This paper examines the characteristics of the thinking skill we call "melioration" i.e., the competence to borrow a concept from a field of knowledge supposedly far removed from his or her domain, and adapt it to a pressing challenge in an area of personal knowledge or interest. The skill has its source in conscious personal meaning-making, not…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Ability, Associative Learning
Cattell-Horn-Carroll Cognitive Abilities and Their Effects on Reading Decoding Skills: g Has Indirect Effects, More Specific Abilities Have Direct Effects
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Floyd, Randy G.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Taub, Gordon E.; McGrew, Kevin S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study employed structural equation modeling to examine the effects of Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) abilities on reading decoding skills using five age-differentiated subsamples from the standardization sample of the Woodcock-Johnson III (Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001). Using the Spearman Model including only g, strong direct effects of g on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Structural Equation Models, Short Term Memory, Listening Skills
Schema Theory as a Guide for Educational Research: White Knight or White Elephant?
Thorndyke, Perry W. – 1981
Much recent cognitive and artificial intelligence research has focused on the development of "schema theory." This theory supposes the existence of knowledge and memory structures that encode prototypical descriptions of familiar concepts. Schema theory has developed in a scientific environment that stresses interdisciplinary approaches…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation