Why g matters: The complexity of everyday life
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In this paper, the authors provide evidence that intelligence has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essentially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing, and the more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well.About:
This article is published in Intelligence.The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1300 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Everyday life & Cognitive complexity.read more
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Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals
TL;DR: Grit demonstrated incremental predictive validity of success measures over and beyond IQ and conscientiousness, suggesting that the achievement of difficult goals entails not only talent but also the sustained and focused application of talent over time.
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Individual differences in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the implica- tions of individual differences in performance for each of the four explanations of the normative/descriptive gap, including performance errors, computational limitations, the wrong norm being applied by the experi- menter, and a different construal of the task by the subject.
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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability
TL;DR: A pesar de la relativamente corta historia de la Psicologia como ciencia, existen pocos constructos psicologicos que perduren 90 anos despues de their formulación and continuen plenamente vigentes in la actualidad as mentioned in this paper.
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Human cognitive abilities: A survey of factor analytic studies
TL;DR: A survey of factor analytic studies of human cognitive abilities can be found in this paper, with a focus on the role of factor analysis in human cognitive ability evaluation and cognition. But this survey is limited.
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Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory
TL;DR: It is concluded that it is possible to improve Gf without practicing the testing tasks themselves, opening a wide range of applications.
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Genetics and intelligence
TL;DR: In this article, the APA review of the books, Genetics and Education (1972) and Educability and Group Differences (1973), both by Arthur R. Jensen, states that Horn agr
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Role of ability and prior knowledge in complex training performance.
TL;DR: A causal model of the role of general cognitive ability and prior job knowledge in subsequent job-knowledge acquisition and work-sample performance during training was developed as mentioned in this paper, where participants were 3,428 U.S. Air Force officers in pilot training.
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Role of Early Supervisory Experience in Supervisor Performance
TL;DR: Schmidt et al. as discussed by the authors explored the role of early supervisory experience and cognitive ability in first-line supervisor performance and found that experience had a greater impact on supervisor proficiency than on supervisor knowledge.
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The role of general ability in prediction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of a uniform general factor score with that produced by a separately tailored set of regression weights when those weights are applied to a new cross-validation sample.