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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"specific abilities"”.
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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?
… 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 the view that specific abilities are of …
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The relationship between raters' understanding of personality traits and situation dimensions from cues: nothing more than general mental ability?
The study of abilities and intelligences in psychology has been an area of interest and debate for over a century. Researchers remain divided as to whether intelligence should be generalised across various domains or should the respective domains be acknowledged and assessed in their individual …
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The relationship of masculinity-feminity to tests of space relations and clerical speed and accuracy
… research... is interested in the relationship of specific abilities to the nonintellectual process of masculinity-feminity. Intra-sex differences on space relations and clerical speed and accuracy have been related to tests measuring masculine and feminine interests and emotions, and one measuring …
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The effects of characteristic prototypicality and level of previous experience on the perceptions of political leaders
… and rated the candidates' leadership abilities. There was a significant gender by experience by civics knowledge interaction for the subjects' overall impression of the candidate (favorability) and the candidate's likelihood of success as president, and for rating 1 (a composite rating …
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A concurrent validation study of the United States Employment Service's validity generalization job family four scores
… examined. Finally, evidence of whether general abilities were better predictors of performance than specific abilities was examined, since the testing program's predictors are comprised of composite, general ability scores. A concurrent validation study was conducted with 219 clerical bank …
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Assessing the Degree to Which Domain Specific Experience Can Offset Age -Related Decline on Basic Cognitive Abilities and Complex Task Performance
… impaired performance on a range of cognitive abilities as a function of increasing age. However, it has been suggested and demonstrated in limited instances that domain-specific experience can help mitigate decline of specific abilities that underlie complex task performance. The present study …
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Relations Among Endogenous Attention, Executive Functioning, and Global Assessment Measures in Toddlers and Preschoolers Born Full-Term and Preterm
… of attention, and experimental tasks eliciting specific abilities may be more useful in detecting differences between term and preterm children</p><p>Participants were 81 toddlers and preschoolers born full-term and preterm. Children completed a battery of attentional measures as well a …
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Effects of job familiarity and level of analysis on analyst importance ratings of relevant knowledges, skills and abilities
… information resulting from differences in the specificity of job information units chosen for analysis were also examined. Students having no prior direct experience with one of three jobs -- secretary, firefighter, or power plant operator -- rated the importance of abilities, both job specific …
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Callous-Unemotional Traits and Empathy Deficits: Mediating Effects of Affective Perspective-Taking and Facial Emotion Recognition
… Furthermore, little is known about what specific abilities may underlie these purported empathy deficits. Affective perspective-taking (APT) and facial emotion recognition are two abilities that may be implicated, given their associations with empathy, and to some degree, with CU traits …
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The development of an assessment to identify deficits in facial expression decoding in young children
… by capturing the proficiency of individuals in specific abilities. One of the abilities often explored is the decoding of emotional facial expressions. Examination of a group of important EI instruments found that, in all cases, they were mediated by language to some degree. The language issue …
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The Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Mathematical Difficulties in Schoolchildren
… with MD would need to go beyond the learning of specific abilities in order to produce sustainable long-term effects on school achievement.
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Life -Span Changes in Task Switching
… that age-related changes in one or more general abilities are sufficient to account for changes in cognitive processing across the life-span. Empirical studies demonstrate that specific abilities, in addition to general processing changes, are needed to account for age-related changes during …
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Experimentally-induced success and failure in bulimic and nonbulimic women: cognitive and affective responses
… and they suggest that lowered confidence in specific abilities and certain types of self-statements operate to maintain bulimic symptoms. Furthermore, this research confirmed earlier reports in the literature regarding affective components of bulimia, especially that they are more depressed …
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Trade, Labor Markets and the Organization of Production within Firms
… how trade alters the matching of worker-specific abilities and task-specific skill requirements. The outcome of this matching process depends on how firms organize their recruitment process and how much they invest into the screening of applicants. In the open economy, the most productive …
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Verbal ability, previous practice and load on short-term memory as determiners of differences in a complex learning task: an experimental study
… two, 3) Ferguson's examination of transfer and abilities and, 4) Brown's discoveries concerning strategy teaching and retardates . In order to examine possible sources of individual differences arising from cognitive tasks, traditional psychometric tests were searched for a suitable perceptual …