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Royer, Fred L. – Intelligence, 1978
Various experiments demonstrated that the difficulty level of several performance-type intelligence test tasks is determined directly by stimulus and task variables that vary the information to be processed. The implications of these findings for intelligence and the problems of an experimental approach to the measurement of intelligence are…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Intelligence Tests
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Intelligence, 1978
The isolation of the components of intelligent performance and applicability of the componential analysis method to tasks other than analogies are discussed. The article also examines the structure of a componential analysis, the precuing method of task decomposition, and new methods for isolating components in a variety of reasoning tasks.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Componential Analysis, Intelligence
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Royer, Fred L. – Intelligence, 1978
Three forms of a symbol-digit substitution task were administered to 62 female and 96 male college students. Results support the theory that the superior performance of women over men on the Digit-Symbol Substituion subtest of the Wechsler scales is due to their greater ability to encode symbols verbally. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Intelligence, Learning Processes
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Bray, Norman W.; And Others – Intelligence, 1978
A directed forgetting task was used in an investigation of the conditions under which normal and educable mentally retarded junior high school students would disregard irrelevant information. Results showed that irrelevant information in memory interfered with the performance of only the retarded group, when given a minimal explanation of the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cues, Intelligence Differences, Junior High Schools