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Assertion and Defense Mechanism Preference.
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Massong, Stefan R.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1982
Investigated whether assertive and nonassertive individuals differ in defense mechanisms they most typically rely on when confronted with interpersonal stress and conflict. Results indicated assertive males and females both endorsed the most adaptive defense mechanism cluster, whereas nonassertive males and females endorsed more primitive defense…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Aptitude-Related Differences in Auditory Recognition Masking.
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Raz, Naftali; And Others – Intelligence, 1983
The relationship between psychometric intelligence and rapid acoustic information processing was explored in two experiments using college students. Group differences occurred in threshold interstimulus intervals required for recognition and in speed. Results were interpreted as indicating better information processing efficiency (higher…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Cognitive Dimensions of Numerical Rule Induction.
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Holzman, Thomas G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Developmental differences in reasoning ability and item processing demands are analyzed in a study of cognitive determinants of number analogy performance in two IQ levels of elementary school children and college students. The amount of solution-related information in working memory was the crucial processing demand. Process differentiations of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Measurement, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Research on Individual Differences Requires Correlational Analysis, not ANOVA
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Humphreys, Lloyd G. – Intelligence, 1978
In studies of the relationship between masculinity-femininity and intelligence, data should be analyzed using correlational analysis for the complete distribution, rather than analysis of variance of extreme groups. The earlier work of Baucom and Welsh (EJ 171 822) was used as illustration. (BW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Femininity, Higher Education
In Support of Extreme Groups Design for Studying Masculinity-Femininity and Intelligence
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Baucom, Donald H.; Welsh, George S. – Intelligence, 1978
Humphreys' criticisms (TM 503 269) of the work of Welsh and Baucom (EJ 171 822) are inappropriate since his findings are based upon a different measure of masculinity-femininity and a population which is somewhat different. Also, his insistence on correlational analysis to the exclusion of extreme group design is viewed as inappropriately…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Femininity, Higher Education
Individual and Group Differences in Intelligence and Speed of Information Processing.
Vernon, Philip A.; Jensen, Arthur R. – 1983
In a study of the relationship between speed of information processing and general intelligence, vocational college students (50 black males and 56 white males) took eight different reaction time tests measuring the speed with which individuals perform various elementary cognitive processes, and a group test of scholastic aptitude (the Armed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Cognitive Processes
Learning and Intelligence: Ability Differences in the Organization and Recall of Elementary Statistical Concepts.
Mittelholtz, David J.; And Others – 1985
Differences in learning processes were studied in more versus less intellectually able undergraduate students. Thirty subjects were selected to represent a wide range of general and mathematical reasoning abilities, based on the following test scores: Necessary Arithmetic Operations and Vocabulary Test V2 from the Educational Testing Service ETS…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cluster Analysis, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style