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Peer reviewedHunt, Earl; And Others – Intelligence, 1988
The predictability of individual differences in the ability to reason about dynamic displays from tests using static displays was studied in 170 adults given paper-and-pencil and computer controlled tests. Several multivariate analyses indicated that the ability to reason about dynamic motion was distinct from the ability to reason about static…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Testing, Individual Differences, Spatial Ability
Direct linkHegarty, Mary; Waller, David – Intelligence, 2004
Recent psychometric results [Mem. Cogn. 29 (2001) 745] have supported a distinction between mental abilities that require a spatial transformation of a perceived object (e.g., mental rotation) and those that involve imagining how a scene looks like from different viewpoints (e.g., perspective taking). Two experiments provide further evidence for…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Visualization, Psychometrics, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedKail, Robert; And Others – Intelligence, 1984
Sex differences in speed of solving mental rotation problems were replicated but college men and women were alike in frequency of use of algorithms to solve problems. The most frequent algorithm involved encoding stimuli in working memory, mental rotation of one to orientation of the other, comparison, and response. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Mathematical Models
Charting the Cognitive Sphere: Tactile-Kinesthetic Performance within the Structure of Intelligence.
Peer reviewedRoberts, Richard D.; Stankov, Lazar; Pallier, Gerry; Dolph, Bradley – Intelligence, 1997
Eight tactile-kinesthetic indices and 27 cognitive-ability and mental-speed measures were administered to 195 college students and community members. Results suggest that tactile-kinesthetic abilities share much with broad visualization and fluid intelligence, little with crystallized intelligence, and differential relationships with speed related…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSalthouse, Timothy A.; And Others – Intelligence, 1990
Three hypotheses accounting for individual differences in spatial visualization ability were investigated in 2 experiments with 142 male undergraduates at Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). Support was found for the preservation-under-transformation hypothesis, suggesting that effectiveness of storage during concurrent information…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Etiology
Peer reviewedEgan, Dennis E. – Intelligence, 1979
The information-processing approach and results of research on spatial ability are analyzed. Performance consists of a sequence of distinct mental operations that seem general across subjects, and can be individually measured. New interpretations for some classical concepts in psychological testing and procedures for abilities are suggested.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
