Relationships among television viewing, intelligence, and the development of language skills and reading competencies in elementary school childrenAbstract. A longitudinal study was carried out to assess effects of TV consumption on the development of ...
mini-q: A Three-Minute Intelligence ScreeningAbstract. In 1968, Baddeley presented a straightforward and economic reasoning test based on grammatical transformations that allows one to assess verbal reasoning in 3 min (Baddeley, 1968) and is still in use ...
Variability in children’s IQ due to current risk factorsAbstract. IQ is one of the most stable personality traits. Levels of individual intelligence achievements are decisively affected by biological and psychosocial risks. Until now it is not ...
Abstract. Most feedback we receive or give is correct (deterministic feedback), though a small fraction can be wrong for various reasons. Children need to cope with receiving some portion of wrong feedback (stochastic feedback). It is ...
Short version of intelligence testing for children with brain tumorsAbstract. A short neuropsychological examination of children with cerebral dysfunction or brain tumors is important for defining mental disorders and is necessary for the evaluation of ...
High ability assessment: German WISC-IV or the AID 2 test batteryThe paper compares two intelligence test batteries, the German WISC-IV and the German-originated AID 2, with respect to (cognitive) high ability assessment. Two models of high ability ...
This study compares results of a new children memory and learning test, the BASIC-MLT and the latest Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth edition (WISC-IV) in a nonclinical German sample (N = 103). All participants were assessed with both ...
The difference (D) between a person's Verbal IQ (VIQ) and Performance IQ (PIQ) has for some time been considered clinically meaningful (Kaufman, 1976, 1979; Matarazzo, 1990, 1991; Matarazzo & Herman, 1985; Sattler, 1982; Wechsler, 1984). Particularly ...
The purpose of the present study was to compare the predictive power of working memory and IQ in children identified as having learning difficulties. The term “working memory” refers to the capacity to store and manipulate information in mind for brief ...
Abstract. Maximizing the translation of ability into accomplishment is of considerable interest. A two-factor construct of “grit” as perseverance and consistency of interest has been argued to predict accomplishment over and above ...
Abstract: Previous research has made use of sensory discrimination tasks that incorporate differential reinforcement schedules as a method for measuring individual differences in implicit reward learning. One such task was popularized by Pizzagalli and ...