Intelligence articles from September 1997

Intelligence archives from September 1997

Similarity in general mental ability in Bedouin full and half siblings.
September 1, 1997... A small battery of g loaded mental ability tests were administered to 274 children from 106 Bedouin families (mean age = 15.0 years, range of age = 7.9 - 18.9 years) attending grade schools in the southern region of Israel. The children were...

Individual differences in practical intelligence and success in immigration.
September 1, 1997... The paper presents a theoretical overview of the relationship between nonacademic aspects of intelligence and success in immigrating to a new country. An empirical study is then presented that relates measures of practical intelligence and tacit...

Self-confidence and performance on tests of cognitive abilities.
September 1, 1997... This study investigates individual differences in confidence judgments made by subjects on the accuracy of their answers to psychological test items. A measure of reasoning ability (the Raven's Progressive Matrices, RPM), a vocabulary test, and a...

Charting the cognitive sphere: tactile-kinesthetic performance within the structure of intelligence.
September 1, 1997... In his extensive review of factor analytic studies conducted this century. Carroll (1993) laments that "information on tactile and kinesthetic sensitivity factors is meager" (p. 546). The present study sought to redress this imbalance by...