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Beier, Margaret E.; Campbell, Madeline; Crook, Amy E. – Intelligence, 2010
Ability and non-ability traits were examined as predictors of learning, operationalized as the development of knowledge structure accuracy, and exam performance in a semester-long course. As predicted by investment theories of intellectual development, both cognitive ability and non-ability traits were important determinants of learning and exam…
Descriptors: Test Results, Goal Orientation, Cognitive Structures, Intellectual Development
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Keil, Frank C. – Intelligence, 1982
An approach to intelligence which emphasizes domain-specific constraints on knowledge structures is compared to information processing approaches. The evaluation of any cognitive ability as being intelligent crucially depends on prior specification of the formal constraints on the domains of knowledge from which that ability originates. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
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Thompson, Lee Anne; And Others – Intelligence, 1985
Separate dimensions of infant cognition were compared with parental general- and specific-cognitive abilities for 182 adoptive and 164 nonadoptive families. More parent-offspring resemblance was present when 24- rather than 12-month Bayley factors were used. Bayley factors were more related to parental g than to specific abilities. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Biological Parents, Cognitive Ability, Correlation