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Zimowski, Michele F.; Wothke, Werner – 1986
Two processing abilities used to solve spatial problems are examined: (1) the analog ability of structural visualization; and (2) the non-analog ability of verbal analytic reasoning. The distinction is based on an evaluation of information processing theory and a review of process-oriented studies of individual differences. Criteria are presented…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences, Sex Differences, Spatial Ability
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Kail, Robert; And Others – Intelligence, 1984
Sex differences in speed of solving mental rotation problems were replicated but college men and women were alike in frequency of use of algorithms to solve problems. The most frequent algorithm involved encoding stimuli in working memory, mental rotation of one to orientation of the other, comparison, and response. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Mathematical Models
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And Others; Gregory, R. J. – Intelligence, 1980
Left-handers with an inverted handwriting posture were compared with other left-handers and with right-handers on a spatial reasoning test. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that left-inverted subjects had relatively bilateral representation of verbal and spatial functions. Bilateral representation is assumed to be inefficient.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Handwriting Skills
Dermen, Diran; Meissner, Judith A. – 1972
The Preschool Embedded Figures Test (PEFT), based partly on the Children's Embedded Figures Test, is a measure of field independence, or analytic functioning. It is intended to investigate the development of psychological differentiation in children as young as age three. The PEFT contains 27 black and white drawings (3 practice drawings and 24…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Data Analysis
Crowther, E. M. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
Adolescents, ages 11-12 and 13-14, were tested for maturity of judgment about stability-change situations and about time perspective. (CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Dermen, Diran – 1972
The Picture Completion subtest of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence was included in this study as a measure of analytic functioning, an aspect of psychological differentiation. Twelve of the 23 items on the test were taken from the WISC and 11 were new. The child is shown a series of 23 pictures, each of which has some…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis