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Vul, Edward; Harris, Christine; Winkielman, Piotr; Pashler, Harold – Online Submission, 2009
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., > 8) correlations between behavioral and self-report measures of personality or emotion and measures of brain activation. We show…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Personality Traits, Diagnostic Tests, Emotional Development
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Hart, Sara A.; Petrill, Stephen A.; Thompson, Lee A.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The goal of this first major report from the Western Reserve Reading Project Math component is to explore the etiology of the relationship among tester-administered measures of mathematics ability, reading ability, and general cognitive ability. Data are available on 314 pairs of monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twins analyzed across 5 waves of…
Descriptors: Twins, Reading Fluency, Problem Solving, Genetics
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Sczesniak, Edward; Deatline-Buchman, Andria – School Psychology Review, 2005
This study evaluated the validity of curriculum-based word problem-solving measures as indicators of proficiency in mathematics with a sample of 77 children in third grade. In the winter and spring of third grade, children completed a battery of general achievement tests in mathematics in addition to curriculum-based problem-solving and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Predictive Validity, Problem Solving, Mathematics Achievement