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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"general cognitive ability (GCA)"”.
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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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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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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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The Effects of Business Process Management Cognitive Resources and User Cognitive Differences on Outcomes of User Comprehension
… a variety of managers across an enterprise the ability to directly design, configure, enact, monitor, diagnose, and control business processes that other types of enterprise systems do not. This is possible because BPM Systems uniquely rely on GPMs derived from formal graph theory. Besides …