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A Unitary Executive Function Predicts Intelligence in Children
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Brydges, Christopher R.; Reid, Corinne L.; Fox, Allison M.; Anderson, Mike – Intelligence, 2012
Executive functions (EF) and intelligence are of critical importance to success in many everyday tasks. Working memory, or updating, which is one latent variable identified in confirmatory factor analytic models of executive functions, predicts intelligence (both fluid and crystallised) in adults, but inhibition and shifting do not (Friedman et…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Inhibition, Task Analysis
Sociodemographic Risk Factors to Intellectual and Academic Functioning in Children with Diabetes.
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Overstreet, Stacy; Holmes, Clarissa S.; Dunlap, William P.; Frentz, Johnette – Intelligence, 1997
The independent contributions of ethnicity and socioeconomic status to intellectual and academic functioning in children with diabetes were studied with 58 diabetic children and 58 comparisons. Findings indicate that black children with diabetes, regardless of social class, are at greater risk for intellectual deficits and learning problems than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
Abstract Categorization Ability as a Predictor of Learning Disability Classification.
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Scott, Marcia S.; And Others – Intelligence, 1986
This study evaluated the diagnostic validity of a task measuring abstract categorization ability in learning disabled (LD) and non-LD children. Data showed that the component of abstract category knowledge that best disciminates LD children from non-LD, is the knowledge of how members of abstract categories differ from each other. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
Individual Differences in Digit Span, Susceptibility to Proactive Interference, and Aptitude/Achievement Test Scores.
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Dempster, Frank N.; Cooney, John B. – Intelligence, 1982
Individual differences in digit span, susceptibility to proactive interference, and various aptitude/achievement test scores were investigated in two experiments with college students. Results indicated that digit span was strongly correlated with aptitude/achievement scores, but did not indicate that susceptibility to proactive interference…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
Learning Disabled Children's Problem Solving: Identifying Mental Processes Underlying Intelligent Performance.
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Swanson, H. Lee – Intelligence, 1988
The differences between learning disabled (LD) and non-LD children's problem-solving protocols were analyzed during a picture arrangement task. Although the groups of 29 LD and 27 non-LD children were comparable in global mental processing and task performance, LD children had difficulty with representing problems and deleting irrelevant…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Reading Deficits and Intellectual Patterns among Children with Neurocognitive Dysfunctions.
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Rie, Ellen D.; Rie, Herbert E. – Intelligence, 1979
Reading deficits among elementary-aged learning disabled children with suspected neurocognitive dysfunctions were calculated. The children were grouped according to IQ profiles. Results indicated that the pattern of high verbal-low performance IQs was associated with the least deficiency in reading ; this association was evident as early as second…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Elementary Education