Abstract: We examined (1) the relationship between actual intelligence and the CAMCOG-R performance in cognitively normal elders and (2) the presumed impact of age and education on the relationship. Our retrospective study of 94 participants assessed in ...
Development of Arithmetic Fluency in Grade 5 and Related PredictorsSummary:Background: Arithmetic fluency describes the ability to quickly provide many correct answers in a narrowly defined period of time for simple ...
Zusammenfassung: Die Untersuchung befaßt sich mit der Frage, ob Aufmerksamkeit, Intelligenz und Verarbeitungsgeschwindigkeit als zentrale Komponenten von «mentaler Leistungsfähigkeit» aufgefaßt werden können. Dazu wurden die Zusammenhänge zwischen ...
Summary: Recent research efforts using psychophysiological methods like Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and EEG mapping methods have provided evidence for the so-called neural efficiency-hypothesis of human intelligence: During task performance less ...
A Reanalysis of the Contributions of Perceptual and Cognitive Processes to IntelligenceSummary: An investigation of the dimensionality of processing times due to contributions of perceptual and cognitive processes is reported. For this purpose the data ...
The Relevance of Subjective Emotional Components of Intelligence for Complex Problem SolvingAbstract: Traditional components of intelligence (e.g., processing capacity) predict behavior in conventional problem-solving tasks, whereas subjective, emotional ...
Timing Behavior in Computerized Adaptive Testing: Response Times for Correct and Incorrect Answers are Not Related to General Fluid IntelligenceSummary: The present study was designed to investigate the effect of general fluid intelligence on item ...
Zusammenfassung: Die Erforschung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Sprache und Kognition hat eine über Jahrhunderte andauernde interdisziplinäre Debatte entfacht. Auch die Aphasiologie befaßt sich seit Mitte des letzten Jahrhunderts mit dieser Thematik. Vom ...
What Kind of Students Are Clients of Tutoring?Summary: This paper presents results of two empirical studies conducted as part of the research project “Working at Home for School (WHS)”. Study 1 focused on the prevalence rates of tutoring, in particular ...
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 ...
The two studies presented here analyse the effect of conditions of social comparison on the organisation of social representations of intelligence. In order to induce the comparisons, participants were asked successively to describe either the ...
It is proposed to simplify the debate about the heritability of mental traits in humans by concentrating on two crucial issues: Population specificity of heritability estimates and the relation of these estimates to the malleability of the trait to which ...
Psychological Tests between Aspirations and Reality in Intelligence DiagnosticsSummary:Objectives: The U.S.-American standards of quality for psychological diagnostics tests were published in 1998 in German translation under the title “Standards für ...
Summary: The traditional intelligence component “processing capacity” predicts complex problem-solving. We investigate whether a component of perceived emotional intelligence, namely, repair of negative emotions, can increase prediction. N = 92 students (...
A Century of Psychology: Differential Psychology, Personality Research, and Psychological Assessment. The Most Important ScientistsAbstract: Outstanding contributions to the fields of Differential Psychology, Personality, and Psychological Assessment ...
Children's Comprehension of Metaphoric LanguageSummary: The aim of the present study was to evaluate children's metaphor comprehension as an important aspect of language development and its importance for pedagogical psychology. A total of 124 children (...
First Language Reading Literacy of Children Educated in an Immersion ProgramSummary: Fifty-two fourth-graders performed German reading literacy tests and an intelligence test. Twenty of the tested children were educated in an immersion English-German ...
Reading Comprehension Without Reading? On the Construct Validity of Multiple-Choice Reading Comprehension Test ItemsAbstract. The construct-validity of multiple-choice test items of reading comprehension was repeatedly criticized. These multiple-choice ...
Multiple Intelligences, Multiple Irritations Howard Gardner’s «Multiple Intelligences» («MI») are very popular, especially among teachers and professional educators. Gardner repeatedly claims that his «MI» have a sound theoretical basis and are ...
Gifted and not Creative? On the Creativity of Intellectually Gifted Children and AdolescentsThe few existing studies regarding the creativity of intellectually gifted children and adolescents revealed controversial results. Within the scope of the «...