Showing papers in "Intelligence in 2002"

TL;DR: In this article, structural equation modeling was performed to determine which construct served as the best predictor of general fluid intelligence in 120 healthy young adults, and the results suggest that WMC, but not short-term memory capacity or processing speed, is a good predictor of GFL in young adults.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a standardized self-report scale of environmental spatial ability, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD), which is used for everyday tasks such as finding one's way in the environment and learning the layout of a new environment.

TL;DR: A 1,3,5-trialkoxy benzene having 1-2 carbon atoms in each of the alkoxy-groups is prepared at high overall yields, with minimal formation of hazardous or polluting by-products, by reacting 1,1-5-tribromo benzene with an alkalimetal alcoholate in the presence of a copper salt.

TL;DR: In this article, the concept of Intelligence and Earnings was introduced and further economic and social Phenomena The Sociology of Intelligence, Earnings, and Social Competence Data on Variables and Methods of Analysis National IQ and Economic Development in 81 Nations National IQs and Economic development in 185 Countries Intelligence and Markets as the Determinants of Economic Development The Future of the Wealth of Nations Appendix 1: The Calculation of National Intelligence Levels Appendix 2: Data on Per Capita Income and Economic Growth in 185 countries Bibliography Index

TL;DR: It is concluded that upper alpha is related to the ability to process semantic information, whereas the two lower alpha bands are associated with attentional demands that dominate during the encoding of new information.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of different task content and of sex on the relationship between intelligence and cortical activation has been tested, and the results suggest a comparatively low cortical activation in brighter as compared to less intelligent individuals but this expected neural efficiency pattern interacted with sex and task content.

TL;DR: This paper examined an aspect of this question in a study employing dynamic testing, conducted in rural villages near Bagamoyo, Tanzania, where a total of 358 experimental-group children in 10 schools, ranging in grade levels from 2 to 5, participated in the study, and an additional 100 students of the same ages served as control participants.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between real-time dynamic decision making tasks (microworlds) and one intelligence test was investigated, and participants interacted with eight NEWFIRE scenarios, four COLDSTORE scenarios, and completed Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that time constraints introduce a spurious mental speed contribution to task performance, and that speeded measures of reasoning are conceived as a compound of two functions, namely working memory capacity and mental speed ability.

TL;DR: The Spanish standardization of the WAIS-III (N=1369) was used in the present study to test the age dedifferentiation hypothesis and the results showed no changes in the percentage of variance accounted for by g and four group factors (Verbal, perceptual organization, working memory, and processing speed) when the restriction of range is controlled as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the question of whether or not average Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) differences between groups that differ in their academic level can be attributed to g, because IQ results from g plus a mixture of specific cognitive abilities and skills.

TL;DR: The authors found that both the African and non-African groups improved over the baseline on the Raven's compared to the control groups, with significantly greater improvement for the African group than the control group.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the classical test theory model is not suited for detecting the dimensionality of test scores, which severely limits the interpretation of the corrected correlation coefficients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the validity of a telephone-assessed measure of cognitive ability using a sample of fifty-two 6-8-year-old children and found that the telephone test was composed of verbal and performance-based measures.

TL;DR: This article examined the Jensen Effect in sub-Saharan African populations and found that a bimodal distribution exists in the African population with a high-scoring group virtually indistinguishable from Whites, and a low-score group performing significantly below both Whites and the higher-scoring African group.

TL;DR: This paper found that differences in knowledge between Blacks and Whites for items tested on an intelligence test, the meanings of words, can be eliminated when equal opportunity for exposure to the information to be tested has been experimentally assured.

TL;DR: This article found that Korean adults emphasize social skills in implicit intelligence theories to a greater degree than Americans and several other Asian samples studied previously, and when asked to use their implicit theories to evaluate the intelligence of hypothetical profiles, Korean adults' implicit theories looked surprisingly similar to that of previously studied American samples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the hypothesis that intelligence is related to the risk of mental illness by linking childhood mental ability data to registers of psychiatric contact within a stable population in northeast Scotland.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between novelty preference in infancy and characteristics of the home environment, as measured by parental socioeconomic status (SES), to children's later intellectual competence.

TL;DR: The authors examined adult age differences on the types of errors made on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) and found that there were some age and ability differences in the number of errors making on problems involving different types of rules.

TL;DR: In this article, a study related IT to intelligence using a measure (Woodcock-Johnson-Revised, WJ-R) that has nonconfounded factors of mental ability in order to determine whether the association is based upon fluid IQ or perceptual processes.

TL;DR: In this article, a MIMIC structural equation model was fitted, with tasks for component processes as input and inductive reasoning tasks as output, and the relationship between item difficulties and the difficulties of their constituent item-generating rules was examined in each country.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that Howard's explanation has several difficulties and show that alternative explanations relating to changes in the chess environment, including increased access to chess knowledge, offer better explanations for the increased presence of young players at top-level chess.

TL;DR: This article provided the transcript of a previously unpublished speech by Burt given on May 2, 1964, at the age of 81, on the occasion of his appointment as Patron to the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP).

TL;DR: In a wide-ranging critique of compensatory education, Baumeister and Bacharach as discussed by the authors identify logical, methodological, and analytical inconsistencies in their critique of early intervention research and offer a balanced assessment of IHDP findings to date.