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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"general cognitive ability"”.
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The Genetics of General Cognitive Ability
General cognitive ability (GCA) is a highly heritable trait, with correlates in numerous other domains. This dissertation reports the results of three studies of the genetics of GCA, conducted with participants from the Minnesota Center for Twin & Family Research (MCTFR). Study #1 (N = 7,100) is a …
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A potential framework for the debate on general cognitive ability and testing
… study, the dimensionality of the debate on general cognitive ability (GCA) and GCA testing was reexamined. First, a review of a recent literary debate on topics related to GCA was conducted. Then, a six-factor model of beliefs was hypothesized. One factor represented the belief in the …
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An Investigation of the Relationships Between Executive Functions, General Cognitive Ability, Science Education and Explanatory Coexistence
… has been reached, although executive functions, general cognitive ability and science education are thought to be its influential contributing factors. This study therefore measures the relative contribution of each of these factors to explanatory coexistence and includes a case study from a …
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The general cognitive ability of Maori and European subjects: a comparative study of Queensland test performances and psychometric properties
… and European children on the Queensland Test of Cognitive Abilities. In addition to studying the comparative performances of the two ethnic groups at six age levels, major psychometric properties of the instrument were investigated. Such data have an important bearing upon the issue of …
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Word Counts in Response to Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts as Reflections of General Cognitive Ability and Broad Cognitive Abilities
… By linking workplace-relevant constructs such as general cognitive ability (GCA) to natural language processing outcomes such as word counts, a foundation for language-based psychological assessment of those abilities can be laid. Over 400 participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk …
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Reexamining the Role of General Cognitive Ability and Specific Abilities in the Prediction of Job Performance Using a Construct-oriented Approach: Not Much More Than g?
… evidence arguing for the preeminence of general cognitive ability in relation to specific abilities with the general resistance of the majority of Industrial-Organizational psychologists to such a position. The contention of the present study was that the primary evidence used to support …
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The Role of Executive Functions in Mathematics and Physics Achievement in Secondary Schools: A Comparative Study of 15- to 17-year-old Students Across Science and Humanities Curriculum Tracks
Executive functions – cognitive skills often including working memory, inhibition and switching – seem essential to secondary school achievement. However, it is unclear how their impact applies to different academic domains of secondary education. Owing to the complex structure of physics, teachers …
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Sporadic cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive abilities
… disease (SVD) is a leading cause of vascular cognitive impairment, contributing to multiple neurological disorders ranging from stroke, to mild cognitive impairment and dementia. However, despite a huge number of studies on the subject, we have a limited understanding of how SVD affects …
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The Rate of Team Performance Change over Time
… the growth patterns of action teams over time. Cognitive and non-cognitive (i.e., motivational) team composition variables were hypothesized to differentially predict initial levels of and changes over time in team performance. In order to test the hypotheses 78 two-person teams flew three …
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Investigating the Influence of Methamphetamine on brain metabolism using 1H-MRS
… relationship with on neuronal integrity and viability, and has been associated with decreased executive function. The association of acute and short-term MA abstinence on brain metabolism, in adult MA abusers, is understudied. Negative relationships with brain metabolism, cognitive development …
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The Contribution of Cognitive Flexibility and Socioeconomic Status to Arithmetic Skills in Chinese Children
Cognitive flexibility, a key component of executive function, is essential for effective mathematical performance as it enables children to switch between operations and notations, transfer knowledge to novel situation, and shift between solution strategies to select the most optimal one. Despite …
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Evaluation of Attention and Executive Control within a Model of Gf-Gc Cognitive Functioning
… guided the development of most contemporary cognitive ability tests (Kaufman and Kaufman, 2004; Wechsler, 2003), as it enumerates general cognitive ability through the evaluation of its multiple components. This study involved an investigation of the Gf-Gc domains including added attention …
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Gamma, beta, and alpha change in individuals following a developmental assessment center
… supplemental analyses revealed that emotional stability, and to a lesser extent, general cognitive ability, may also be associated with the nature of the change observed. The implications of this study for both developmental assessment centers and the measurement of individual-level change are …
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Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests
… Solomonson, & McClelland, 2009), although cognitively loaded tests delivered by UIT are suspected to offer test takers greater opportunities to cheat and increase the risk of test taker cheating (Chapman & Webster, 2003; Tippins et al., 2006; Tippins, 2009). Despite the wide use and …
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Toward a Theory of Individual Differences and Leadership: Understanding the Motivation to Lead
… well, but is also parsimonious relative to a general model with all possible paths from distal antecedents to MTL. Leadership self-efficacy and past experience are also showed to mediate the relationship between various distal antecedents and the MTL factors. Cross-validation shows that the …
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Neuropsychological Correlates of Anosognosia in MCI and Dementia
Anosognosia is a general term used to describe a lack of awareness of a disability and is well documented in various disorders associated with neurological compromise. While anosognosia is well documented as part and parcel to Alzheimer's dementia, less research has focused on determining the …
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Testing the specificity question - do environmental factors have broad or specific associations with key developmental outcomes?
… – ranging from depression, drug use, and cognitive development. The first study is a validation study for a series of novel cognitive assessments created for the Cambridge-based RED longitudinal study, which are utilized in later chapters (adapted from Bignardi et al. 2020). The second …
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A concurrent validation study of the United States Employment Service's validity generalization job family four scores
… recently developed testing program. The Validity Generalization (VG) Testing Program, adopted its name from the meta-analytic technique which cumulates the findings of test validation studies. For this testing program, predictors were developed for five job families based on a validity …
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NEUROPROFILES: NEUROdevelopment in PReschool children Of FIfe and Lothian Epilepsy Study
Neurobehavioural problems (i.e. cognitive impairment/behaviour problems) are common in childhood epilepsy. There are very limited data in children with early-onset epilepsy (CWEOE; onset ≤4 years). This study: (1) estimated the incidence of early-onset epilepsy, (2) described the spectrum and …
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Do Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior Measure What They Are Intended to Measure?
This study involves an examination of the neurocognitive correlates of subscales of the Conners' Rating Scale - Revised (CRS-R), an ADHD behavioral rating form, in both a child (n=72) and an adolescent (n=49) sample. While both behavioral rating forms and neuropsychological measures are commonly …
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