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How Do People Think about Intelligence?
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Fitzgerald, Joseph M.; Mellor, Steven – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1988
The replication, with 192 adults, of research concerning implicit intelligence theories suggested a simpler model of implicit theories than that proposed by R. I. Sternberg et al (1981). Using a sorting procedure, a second study (N=88 undergraduates) showed that people distinguish intelligent and unintelligent behaviors without distinguishing…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Behavior Theories, Community Attitudes
Factor Analysis of the Revised Wechsler Memory Scale Tests in a Neuropsychological Battery.
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Russell, Elbert W. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The Revised Wechsler Memory Scale, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale subtests, and Halstead-Reitan battery were factor analyzed. Five types of memory were isolated: immediate verbal, recent verbal, recent figural, figural learning, and verbal learning storage. Loadings of memory and nonmemory tests indicate a closer relationship between some of…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Factor Analysis
The Study of Life Review. An Approach to the Investigation of Intellectual Development across the Life Span. Studien und Berichte 47.
Staudinger, Ursula M. – 1989
A study looked for age differences in the quality of responses to the Life Review Task (LRT), studied the LRT itself as a tool for exploring wisdom and intellectual functioning in adulthood, and considered personality characteristics and life experience as alternative predictors of response quality. Sixty-three West German women of different ages…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals)
Research on Intellectual Development: Retrospect and Prospects.
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Horn, John L. – 1971
The author reviews cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on the status of intelligence in the aging, and finds conflicting conclusions: (1) intelligence does decline as persons grow older; (2) only some aspects decline while others improve; and (3) intelligence does not decline. Certain factors are adduced to suggest that such…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Age Groups, Individual Development
Emotional Intelligence: Popular but Elusive Construct.
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Pfeiffer, Steven I. – Roeper Review, 2001
Important work of Daniel Goleman, Peter Salovey and John Mayer on emotional intelligence (EI) is discussed to illustrate recent theorizing on EI. The article discusses conceptual and measurement problems that presently challenge the usefulness of the EI construct and urges further research. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Children, Emotional Development
Parent-Offspring Resemblance for Cognitive Abilities in the Colorado Adoption Project: Biological, Adoptive, and Control Parents and One-Year-Old Children.
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DeFries, J. C.; And Others – Intelligence, 1981
Results from the Colorado Adoption Project, a longitudinal study initiated in 1975, are reported. The cognitive ability of parents and measures of one-year olds' mental development were significantly correlated for all three parent/child comparisons. Caldwell's HOME Responsibility measure was correlated with infant intelligence in adoptive and…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adults, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation
Group Intelligence: Why Some Groups Are Better than Others.
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Williams, Wendy M.; Sternberg, Robert J. – Intelligence, 1988
Relationships between cognitive and social-cognitive characteristics of group members and group performance were assessed, using 96 adults. A method for conceptualizing and modeling group performance is presented. People working in newly formed small groups on written problems emphasizing divergent/creative solutions generally produce…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Group Behavior
Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion by Persons with Mental Retardation.
McAlpine, Christopher; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
This study of 501 children and adults found that subjects with mental retardation or borderline intelligence were less proficient at identifying facial expressions of emotion than were children of average intelligence. Among individuals with mental retardation or borderline intelligence, recognition increased with intelligence quotient. Among…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Children
LEARNING IN ADULTHOOD, THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE.
BAYLEY, NANCY – 1966
IN THE LONGITUDINAL BERKELEY GROWTH STUDY, SUBJECTS WERE TESTED AT 16, 18, 21, AND 26 YEARS ON THE WECHSLER-BELLEVUE, AND AT 36 YEARS ON THE WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE, WHICH CONTAIN BOTH VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL SUBSCALES. THE MOST CONSISTENT INCREASES IN MEAN SCORES OVER THE PERIOD WERE IN INFORMATION, VOCABULARY, AND COMPREHENSION. DIGIT…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences
Intelligence and Personal Influence in Groups: Four Nonlinear Models.
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Simonton, Dean Keith – Psychological Review, 1985
Four models are developed to provide a conceptual basis for a curvilinear relation between intelligence and an individual's influence over group members. The models deal with influence and percentile placement in intelligence, comprehension by potential followers, vulnerability to rival intellects, and correlation between mean group IQ and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Creativity