Summary: During the last years, the behavioral genetic investigation of individual differences has been applied to processes of cognitive aging. In this review, the state of the current theoretical discussion and the results of empirical studies are ...
Zusammenfassung: Im Rahmen der Hannoverschen Grundschulstudie wurde die Bedeutung von Kontextfaktoren der Schultestleistung in den Fächern Deutsch und Mathematik an 710 Drittklässlern ermittelt. Als Kontextfaktoren wurden auf der Klassenebene u.a. das ...
Mentale und körperliche Gesundheit sind eng verbunden mit einem erfolgreichen Altern. Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen eines Tanztrainings im Vergleich zu einem Kraft-/Ausdauertraining sowie der Kombination beider auf die fluide Intelligenz, die ...
Obschon grundlegende Kompetenzen des Verstehens und Interpretierens von Daten in unserer Informationsgesellschaft inzwischen als unerlässlich gelten, existieren jedoch bislang nur wenige Erkenntnisse darüber, welche Variablen die Entwicklung von ...
Mathematical competencies in primary school: Structure and relation to psychometrical intelligenceAbstract. The present article addresses the question whether different mathematical content areas and cognitive operations can be separated in statistical ...
Assessment of ICT Literacy: Do Multiple-Choice Tasks and Simulation-Based Tasks Measure Comparable Constructs? Comparison of the Test Results of Two Large-Scale Instruments: ICILS 2013 Versus NEPSAbstract. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ...
Zusammenfassung. In den demografischen Wandlungsprozessen unserer Gesellschaft liegen zahlreiche neue Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Psychologie. Die hierbei besonders angesprochene psychologische Alternsforschung sollte im Sinne einer bedeutsamen ...Psychological aging research: Contributions and perspectivesAbstract. The demographic changes that our society faces as part of the overall aging of the population provide the field of psychology with a number of challenges and opportunities. ...
Factors influencing face recognition during the first year of lifeAbstract. Shortly after birth infants show a preference for faces over other visual objects and increasingly learn to discriminate and recognize different faces during the first year of ...
The Berlin Aptitude Test for Psychology – BSF-PAbstract: Studying psychology is extremely popular in Germany. Because of the limited number of available spots, selection of applicants is necessary. To date, grades on the high school ...
Impaired cognitive and motor functioning in very low birth weight children at 8 years of ageAbstract.Background: While severe handicaps of VLBW children (<1500g) are well documented, subtle deficits require more ...
The savant syndrome: A reviewAbstract.Background: The term savant-syndrome describes a condition of general intellectual impairment, mental or sensory disorder, appearing with an extraordinary performance within a ...
Effects of dance intervention on body concept and cognitive abilities of normally developed childrenMuch research has been done regarding the possibility of fostering the cognitive development of children and ...
Abstract: This study further validates the sport-specific Mental Rotation Test – Basketball (MRT-BB) in which participants solve 24 items regarding basketball plays. The task of each item consists of comparing four alternative stimuli ...
Experimental interest in human decision making has been fertile in the past two decades. It is generally recognized that answers to questions involving general knowledge tend to produce overconfidence, whereas responses to perceptual tasks often result in ...
Abstract. This paper provides an overview of the research into the cognitive basis of intelligence. This research explains cognitive abilities in terms of cognitive units or properties of such units. Furthermore, this research is characterized by the ...
Abstract. This study investigates the relationship between scholastic achievement (teacher-assigned grades) and cognitive abilities while explicitly modeling the multilevel structure of a large data set from an educational context. A multivariate analysis ...
Carroll (1993) found few factor-analytic studies that addressed attentional abilities. We reviewed and reanalyzed some of these studies and concluded that an exploratory approach to the study of the relationships between tests of attention and cognitive ...
Especially in survey research and large-scale assessment there is a growing interest in short scales for the cost-efficient measurement of psychological constructs. However, only relatively few standardized short forms are available for the measurement of ...
Abstract: Across three studies and three different samples, we investigated whether decision-making styles exhibit incremental validity in predicting various real-life outcomes over and above cognitive abilities and personality ...