How does attention relate to the ability-specific and position-specific components of reasoning measured by APM?

Autor/inn/en	Xuezhu, Ren; Goldhammer, Frank; Moosbrugger, Helfried; Schweizer, Karl
Titel	How does attention relate to the ability-specific and position-specific components of reasoning measured by APM?
Quelle	In: Learning and individual differences, 22 (2012) 1, S. 1-7Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1041-6080
DOI	10.1016/j.lindif.2011.09.009
Schlagwörter	Bildungsforschung; Empirische Untersuchung; Korrelation; Arbeitsgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeit; Kognitionspsychologie; Kognitive Kompetenz; Kognitiver Prozess; Psychometrie; Test; Messverfahren; Logik; Statistische Analyse; Wirkung; Student
Abstract	The aim of the present study was to clarify the nature of the ability-specific and position-specific components of Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) by relating them to a number of types of attention. The ability-specific component represents the constant part of cognitive performance whereas the position-specific component reflects the changes in processing of reasoning items as a result of the changing item position. A special model denoted fixed-links model was used to decompose the data of APM into independent components. Both components were related to two higher-order units of attention, perceptual attention and executive attention, which were derived from the various types of attention. In a sample of 226 participants the position-specific component of APM showed a substantially higher link with executive attention than with perceptual attention whereas the ability-specific component only showed a moderate link with perceptual attention. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2013/2