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Examining the Association between Language, Expository Discourse and Offending Behaviour: An Investigation of Direction, Strength and Independence
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Hopkins, Thomas; Clegg, Judy; Stackhouse, Joy – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: A high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is reported in the population of Young Offenders (YO). However, little is known about the extent of the association between language and offending behaviour relative to social disadvantage, education attendance and non-verbal intelligence (IQ), and neither has this association…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Expository Writing
Intellectual Competence and Academic Performance: Preliminary Validation of a Model
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane – Intelligence, 2008
The present study provides a preliminary empirical test of [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2004). A possible model to understand the personality-intelligence interface. "British Journal of Psychology," 95, 249-264], [Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2006a). Intellectual competence and the intelligent personality: A…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Academic Achievement, Models, Validity
Intelligence and Inspection Time in Normal and Mentally Retarded Subjects.
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Hulme, Charles; Turnbull, Jennifer – British Journal of Psychology, 1983
Explores the generality of findings relating intelligence to Inspection Time (IT), the exposure necessary to judge which of two lines is longer, in two studies using normal children and mentally retarded adults. Results showed the relationship between IT and performance IQ was lower in the mentally retarded group. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Intelligence in Hong Kong Measured for Spearman's "g" and the Visuospatial and Verbal Primaries.
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Lynn, Richard; And Others – Intelligence, 1988
Major visuospatial and verbal abilities were assessed for 197 10-year-olds in Hong Kong and 170 10-year-olds in the United Kingdom. The Hong Kong subjects resembled their Japanese counterparts in having high Searman's "g," exhibiting abstract reasoning ability, high spatial ability, high perceptual speed, and low word fluency. (SLD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis