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Recruitment Modeling: An Analysis and an Application to the Study of Male-Female Differences in Intelligence
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Hunt, Earl; Madhyastha, Tara – Intelligence, 2008
Studies of group differences in intelligence often invite conclusions about groups in general from studies of group differences in selected populations. The same design is used in the study of group differences in other traits as well. Investigators observe samples from two groups (e.g. men and women) in some accessible population, but seek to…
Descriptors: Intelligence, College Students, Females, Recruitment
Cognitive Psychology's Ambiguities: Some Suggested Remedies.
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Guilford, J.P. – Psychological Review, 1982
Information processing research offers a solution to the ambiguity of many concepts in cognitive psychology. The author's definition of intelligence and the structure-of-intellect model offer a systematic collection of rigorously and operationally defined concepts. New evidence for discriminability of the model categories and views of memory and…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Memory
Malnutrition, Learning, and Intelligence
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Birch, Herbert G – American Journal of Public Health, 1972
A comprehensive review and analysis of significant research on malnutrition and learning. Indicates that nutritional factors contribute to depressed intellectual level and learning failure. (DM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Literature Reviews
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Sternberg, Robert J. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992
This commentary on a paper by Douglas Detterman and others (EC 604 995), which tested a model assessing basic cognitive abilities in young adults with and without mental retardation, criticizes the paper for drawing conclusions not justified by the empirical results. (JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
Response to Mathias and Nettelbeck on the Structure of Competence: Need for Theory-Based Methods to Test Theory-Based Questions.
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Greenspan, Stephen; McGrew, Kevin S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
This paper responds to a 1992 study in which it was argued that the structure of intelligence in adults with severe mental retardation deviates from Greenspan's model, in which social and practical intelligence form separate factors. Application of confirmatory factor analysis to the original correlation matrix found the Greenspan model to be…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Data Interpretation, Factor Analysis
A Reply to Greenspan and McGrew's "Need for Theory-Based Methods to Test Theory-Based Questions."
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Mathias, J. L.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
This paper discusses inconsistencies in Greenspan and McGrew's argument that confirmatory, rather than exploratory, factor analysis should be utilized in testing Greenspan's model of adaptive intelligence in adults with severe mental retardation. It is argued that problems with the data set should be addressed through further research rather than…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Data Interpretation, Factor Analysis
Sibling Spacing and Academic Achievement: A Within-Family Perspective.
Galbraith, Richard C.; Smith, James E. – 1979
This paper criticizes Zajonc's confluence model of the relationship between sibling spacing and sibling intelligence. According to Zajonc, variations in the intellectual performance of individuals are accounted for in part by two features of the individual's family of orientation: (1) the number of children in that family, and (2) the spacing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Age Differences, Birth Order