Intelligence Tests

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Diagnosing item score patterns on a test using item response theory-based person-fit statistics.

Person-fit statistics have been proposed to investigate the fit of an item score pattern to an item response theory (IRT) model. The author investigated how these statistics can be used to detect different types of misfit. Intelligence test data were ...
Rob R Meijer (Psychol Methods, 200303)
diagnosing-item-score-patterns-test-item-response-theory-based-person.asp

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Theory of mind and the role of IQ in chronic disorganized schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND: Several studies have suggested a theory of mind (ToM) deficit in schizophrenic disorders. However, the role of interfering variables such as IQ, attention, memory, and severity of the disorder has remained ambiguous. METHODS: A theory of mind ...
Martin Brüne (Schizophr Res, 200303)
theory-mind-role-iq-chronic-disorganized-schizophrenia.asp

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The relationship between blood lead, bone lead and child intelligence.

We report associations between serial measures of blood lead and intelligence in children age 10-12 years, half heavily exposed to lead from the prenatal period onward, and half relatively unexposed. For a subsample, we examine bone lead-IQ associations, ...
Gail A Wasserman, Pam Factor-Litvak, Xinhua Liu, Andrew C Todd, Jennie K Kline, Vesna Slavkovich, Dusan Popovac, Joseph H Graziano (Neuropsychol Dev Cogn Sect C Child Neuropsychol, 200303)
relationship-blood-lead-bone-lead-child-intelligence.asp

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Do clever brains age more slowly? Further exploration of a nun result.

Recent epidemiological evidence suggests that individuals who have higher levels of mental ability in youth experience a slower cognitive decline as they grow old. In a sample of 3,263 Newcastle residents, average scores on a vocabulary test (Ravens 1965 ...
Patrick Rabbitt, Amanda Chetwynd, Lynn McInnes (Br J Psychol, 200302)
clever-brains-age-more-slowly-exploration-nun-result.asp

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Effects of orthographic transparency on reading and phoneme awareness in children learning to read in Wales.

The relationship between the development of reading skills and the consistency of the orthography (writing system) is investigated in a study that examines reading acquisition in children living in Wales. Performance of children learning to read Welsh (a ...
Llinos H Spencer, J Richard Hanley (Br J Psychol, 200302)
effects-orthographic-transparency-reading-phoneme-awareness-children.asp

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Perspectives on incorporating human neurobehavioral end points in risk assessments.

Three topics are addressed: (1) measurement issues (e.g., the reliability and validity of neurobehavioral test scores), (2) general principles of assessment, including test selection, and (3) interpretation of scores. Psychological tests generally ...
David C Bellinger (Risk Anal, 200302)
perspectives-incorporating-human-neurobehavioral-end-points-risk.asp

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Intelligence and family marital structure: the case of adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families among Bedouin Arabs in Israel.

The levels of intelligence among Bedouin Arab adolescents from monogamous and polygamous families living in the Negev region of Israel were examined. A shortened version of the Ravens Progressive Matrices (RPM) test (S. Elbedour, T. J. Bouchard, & Y. ...
Salman Elbedour, William M Bart, Joel Hektner (J Soc Psychol, 200302)
intelligence-family-marital-structure-case-adolescents-monogamous.asp

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The impact of different directed forgetting instructions on implicit and explicit memory: new evidence from a modified process dissociation procedure.

In contrast to previous research on directed forgetting, the present studies adopted a recent modification of the process dissociation procedure (Jacoby, 1991; Richardson-Klavehn & Gardiner, 1995) to accommodate the cross-contamination of memory test ...
Daniel David, Richard J Brown (Q J Exp Psychol A, 200302)
impact-different-directed-forgetting-instructions-implicit-explicit.asp

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Motor, cognitive, and behavioural disorders in children born very preterm.

Children born preterm have been shown to exhibit poor motor function and behaviour that is associated with school failure in the presence of average intelligence. A geographically determined cohort of two-hundred and eighty preterm children (151 males, ...
L A Foulder-Hughes, R W I Cooke (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200302)
motor-cognitive-behavioural-disorders-children-born-preterm.asp

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Influence of test anxiety on measurement of intelligence.

In this study a measurement model for a test anxiety questionnaire was investigated in a sample of 207 Dutch students in the first grade of junior secondary vocational education. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis showed that a model for test ...
Ron Oostdam, Joost Meijer (Psychol Rep, 200302)
influence-test-anxiety-measurement-intelligence.asp