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Dodonova, Yulia A.; Dodonov, Yury S. – Intelligence, 2013
Using more complex items than those commonly employed within the information-processing approach, but still easier than those used in intelligence tests, this study analyzed how the association between processing speed and accuracy level changes as the difficulty of the items increases. The study involved measuring cognitive ability using Raven's…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Ability, Accuracy
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Partchev, Ivailo; De Boeck, Paul – Intelligence, 2012
Responses to items from an intelligence test may be fast or slow. The research issue dealt with in this paper is whether the intelligence involved in fast correct responses differs in nature from the intelligence involved in slow correct responses. There are two questions related to this issue: 1. Are the processes involved different? 2. Are the…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Reaction Time, Accuracy
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Ivie, Jennifer L.; Embretson, Susan E. – Intelligence, 2010
Spatial ability tasks appear on many intelligence and aptitude tests. Although the construct validity of spatial ability tests has often been studied through traditional correlational methods, such as factor analysis, less is known about the cognitive processes involved in solving test items. This study examines the cognitive processes involved in…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes, Test Items, Construct Validity
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Roberts, Richard D.; And Others – Intelligence, 1988
The Ravens Standard Progressive Matrices Test was administered to 48 subjects who then performed a card-sorting task under single- and competing-task conditions. Hick's Law and the Roth-Jensen procedure were used in task development. Complexity should have a more central role in speed of processing models of intelligence than ability to divide…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
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Caryl, P. G.; Harper, Alison – Intelligence, 1996
Effects on the event-related potential (ERP) waveform of differences in stimuli (task difficulty) and threshold were studied with 35 undergraduates performing a visual inspection time task and 30 performing a pitch discrimination task. In both tasks, ERP differences related to threshold were temporally localized differences in waveform shape. (SLD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Higher Education
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Houlihan, Michael; Stelmack, Robert; Campbell, Kenneth – Intelligence, 1998
The latency and amplitude of the P300, an event-related potential, during the performance of a memory-scanning task were used as indices of the efficiency of information processing that may mediate individual differences in intelligence. Results with 61 female college students contradict a pure speed of processing explanation of the relationship…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Difficulty Level, Females
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Royer, Fred L. – Intelligence, 1978
Various experiments demonstrated that the difficulty level of several performance-type intelligence test tasks is determined directly by stimulus and task variables that vary the information to be processed. The implications of these findings for intelligence and the problems of an experimental approach to the measurement of intelligence are…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Intelligence Tests
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Larson, Gerald E.; Saccuzzo, Dennis P. – Intelligence, 1989
Experiments with 35 male/39 female college students and 220 male Navy recruits examined the nature of a general ability factor of intelligence--Spearman's "g." Patterns related to task complexity and reaction time variability were studied. "g" appears related to the ability to reconfigure working memory contents flexibly and…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Bethell-Fox, Charles E.; And Others – Intelligence, 1984
This study of individual differences in performance of a geometric analogies task included four-alternative test items and studied eye movements and confidence judgments as well as latency and error. Results were interpreted using two hypothesized performance strategies: constructive matching and response elimination. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Confidence Testing, Difficulty Level, Eye Movements