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Pritchard, Verena E.; Woodward, Lianne J. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Executive functions (EF) necessary for purposeful goal-directed activities undergo rapid change and development during the preschool years. However, of the few psychometrically valid measures of EF suitable for use with preschoolers, information on task sensitivity and predictive validity is scant. The neurodevelopmental correlates of early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Individual Development, Neurological Organization
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Willoughby, Michael T.; Blair, Clancy B.; Wirth, R. J.; Greenberg, Mark – Psychological Assessment, 2010
In this study, the authors examined the psychometric properties and criterion validity of a newly developed battery of tasks that were designed to assess executive function (EF) abilities in early childhood. The battery was included in the 36-month assessment of the Family Life Project (FLP), a prospective longitudinal study of 1,292 children…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Family Life, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorders
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Gregory, Tess; Nettelbeck, Ted; Howard, Sara; Wilson, Carlene – Intelligence, 2008
Inspection Time (IT) is a psychophysical speed measure that has been linked to a range of cognitive abilities with results finding that shorter IT is associated with superior performance in cognitive abilities. Following a recent suggestion by Nettelbeck and Wilson [Nettelbeck, T., & Wilson, C. (2004). The Flynn effect: Smarter not faster.…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Cognitive Tests, Older Adults, Short Term Memory
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Lewis, Michael; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Intelligence, 1981
The predictive power of various cognitive skills at three months of age in terms of later cognitive functioning was examined. Visual habituation and recovery predicted later intellectual functioning at 24 months better than global intelligence or object permanence scores. Changes in cognitive functioning may be a transformation of skills.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Infants
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Wilson, Rose; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Prekindergarten children were given a perceptual discrimination task using letterlike forms and their transformations. The magnitude of the relation to subsequent achievement in reading varied according to the difficulty of a transformation. More easily discriminated transformations were associated with higher correlations. Patterns were similar…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education
Froman, Robin D.; Owen, Steven V. – 1977
The long term predictive validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) and the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test for Children, when used for the educational placement of exceptional students, was investigated. In 1971, 225 learning disabled elementary school students were tested on the WISC and the Bender. The students were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Diagnostic Tests
Carew, Jean V. – 1975
The present study states as its purpose the delineation of everyday transactions with the environment of a group of children observed longitudinally in their own homes and neighborhoods from age one to three. This research is considered to have been designed to answer: (1) what types of experiences are intellectually valuable to the young child;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Human Development