Abstract: The study presented here analyses the relationship of motor coordination and cognition in different age groups. Coordination is defined as the dynamic non-linear collaboration of physical subsystems and environment dependent on task specific ...
Vocational Interests and Cognitive Ability of first-year Teacher Candidates as a Function of selected Study MajorRecent research on professional development in teacher education has been focused on differences in teacher candidates’ personality profiles ...
Abstract. Research shows that caregivers of dementia patients experience burden and psychological distress, but it is unclear whether or not caregivers of individuals with cognitive impairments that do not meet a diagnosis for dementia ...
Capacity limitation and intellectual abilityAbstract.In a study examining the influence of cognitive capacity limitation on intellectual ability, 124 university students were subjected to 7 computer-based tests in which cognitive demands were manipulated ...
Know Thyself! The Role of Adequate vs. Inadequate Self-Assessment of Relevant Skills in the Preference for Health InformationAbstract. An independent search and the adequate understanding of health information form an important basis ...
Abstract. This study looked into the associations between parents’ implicit theories of intelligence, children’s cognitive aptitude, and children’s tendency to opt for mastery-oriented responses to challenging achievement situations. All child ...
The prediction of training success: General intelligence (g) or specific cognitive abilities?Abstract. According to meta-analyses of international studies, general intelligence is the best predictor of training success, and specific cognitive abilities ...
Background: Currently, no recently normed group intelligence test for primary school children is available in Germany to cover verbal, numerical, and figural reasoning abilities. Furthermore, no test for this age group is difficult enough to be able to ...
Abstract. The current study investigates the behavior of task-specific, current achievement motivation (CAM: interest in the task, probability of success, perceived challenge, and fear of failure) across a variety of reasoning tasks ...
Abstract. Unproctored, web-based assessments are frequently compromised by a lack of control over the participants’ test-taking behavior. It is likely that participants cheat if personal consequences are high. This meta-analysis summarizes ...
Abstract. This study introduces a newly developed public-domain multilingual automatic item generator that creates propositional reasoning (PR) items belonging to 15 item families by using various inference rules. Psychometric properties ...
Abstract. The main aim of the present study was to investigate whether faking on personality measures is predicted by cognitive ability and self-reported efficacy of positive self-presentation (ESP) assessed under honest conditions. 123 participants ...
Abstract. Social networks or support may contribute to successful aging. The Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 had their mental ability assessed at age 11 and 79. Almost 500 participants also rated their life satisfaction, social networks, and support at age 80. ...
Although much is known about the motivational underpinnings of authoritarian ideologies, less is known about the underlying mental abilities. In the present study, the relations between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO),...
Abstract. Temperature, geo-residential pattern of subpopulations, prevalence of infectious diseases, and UV radiation have been proposed to explain the declining cognitive ability observed with proximity to the equator in the USA. This ...
Abstract. Cognitive capitalism theory argues that the positive effects of cognitive ability on economic productivity should increase nonlinearly, with increases in ability amplifying increases in productivity. The theory was tested using country-level ...
Abstract. Sex differences in mathematical ability were examined in a nation-wide sample of 32,346 Jordanian 4th graders (age 9–10 year) on a 40-item mathematics test. Overall, boys were found to perform slightly worse (d = −0.12) but had slightly more ...
Abstract. This replication and extension of DeYoung, Quilty, Peterson, and Gray’s (2014) study aimed to assess the unique variance of each of the 10 aspects of the Big Five personality traits (DeYoung, Quilty, & Peterson, 2007) associated with ...
Abstract: Freedom of speech and political correctness are recurrent and contentious topics in contemporary society. The present study (N = 300 North-American adults) aimed to advance empirical knowledge on these issues by ...