Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIX
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Lecture 1: Factor-Analytic Investigations of Cognitive Abilities....Pages 3-8
Lecture 2 :Defining Abilities through the Person Characteristic Function....Pages 8-12
Lecture 3: Cognitive Components and Psychological Processes....Pages 12-15
Lecture 1: The Biological Basis of Intelligence....Pages 17-19
Approaching the LIQ: New Waves and Old Problems in Individual Differences....Pages 21-24
Lecture 1:The Information Processing Approach to Intelligence....Pages 27-32
Lecture 2: Verbal Comprehension....Pages 32-36
Lecture 3: Attention....Pages 36-42
A Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence....Pages 43-44
Lecture 2: The Componential Subtheory....Pages 44-45
Lecture 3: The Experiential and Contextual Subtheories....Pages 46-47
Cognitive and Motivational Differences Between Asian and Other Cultures....Pages 51-52
Speed of Cognitive Processing: Cross-Cultural Findings....Pages 53-56
Lecture 1: The Comparative Study of Cognitive Abilities: Historical and Contemporary Issues....Pages 57-62
Lecture 2: Organisation and Ecology of Cognitive Abilities....Pages 63-69
Lecture 3: Indigenous and Universal Cognitive Functioning....Pages 69-74
Australian Aboriginal Cognition in Context....Pages 75-79
Assessing Competence....Pages 83-86
Lecture 2: Assessing High-Order Cognitive Skills....Pages 87-91
Lecture 3: Assessing Motivation, Values and Coping Skills that Affect Competence....Pages 91-94
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Contributions of Animal Cognition to the Understanding of Human Cognition....Pages 95-98
Lecture 2: The Biological Basis of Personality....Pages 101-104
Lecture 3: The Biological Basis of Neurosis....Pages 104-107
Lecture 1: Personality Inventories....Pages 109-113
Lecture 2: Projective and Objective Tests....Pages 113-117
Lecture 3: Measuring Unconscious Processes....Pages 117-121
Lecture 1: A Framework for Aptitude Theories....Pages 125-128
Lecture 2: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Aptitude for Learning from Instruction....Pages 128-131
Lecture 3: Cognitive and Motivational Process Analysis of Tests, Tasks and Treatments....Pages 132-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Reanalyses of Factor-Analytic Studies of Mathematical Abilities....Pages 139-154
Metacognition, Social Context and Personal Factors in Arithmetic Problem Solving....Pages 155-177
The Role of Word Familiarity in Word Recognition....Pages 179-199
Intellectual, Memory and Neuropsychological Assessment: A Clinical Survey....Pages 201-214
The Interaction of Cognition and Motivation in Performance on Tests of Field Dependence-Independence....Pages 217-230
Current Theoretical Considerations of the Trait Concept: Empirical Facts, and Implications for Personality Inventory Construction....Pages 231-248
A Life Span Study of Liberal Arts and Professional Groups on Personal and Intellective Growth....Pages 249-257
Concentration Ability of Students in Education: Construction and Validation of a Questionnaire....Pages 259-271
Student Attention During Instruction and Achievement....Pages 273-286
Personality and Test Performance....Pages 287-298
Assessing the Role of Intelligence, Motivation, and Coping Skills in Explaining Latin-Americans’ Intellectual Competence in School....Pages 301-317
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Performance-Based Assessment of Depriving Environments: Comparison of Context/Response Interactions Within Inner-City and Suburban School Settings....Pages 319-340
Achievement Motivation and Socialisation....Pages 341-350
Females in Technical Apprenticeship: Development of Aptitudes, Performance and Self-Concept....Pages 351-357
The Effects on Performance of the Congruence Between Goal-Setting Strategies and Socio-Cultural Values....Pages 359-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Validation of the Micropat Battery of Pilot Aptitude Tests....Pages 371-371
Measures of Thirty Cognitive Tasks: Intercorrelations and Correlations with Aptitude Battery Scores....Pages 372-373
Analysing Cognitive Learning Strategies through Microcomputer-Based Problem-Solving Tasks....Pages 374-374
Computers in Instructional Testing: Some Considerations....Pages 375-376
Programming for Computer-Controlled Tasks....Pages 376-377
Using Qualitative Data to Test Computer Models of Children’s Word Problem Solving....Pages 377-378
Computerised Assessment and Remediation of Perceptual Skill....Pages 378-379
Measuring of Spatial Visualising Ability....Pages 383-383
Components of Spatial Ability....Pages 384-385
Attitudes: Their Relationship with Intelligence and Achievement and Their Evaluation....Pages 385-386
Possibilities and Problems of Program-Independent Achievement Testing....Pages 386-387
The Motivation Induction Method: A Technique to Identify the Content and to Measure the Future Time Perspective of Motivational Goal Objects....Pages 388-388
Personality Assessment: Projective Techniques and Psychopathology....Pages 389-390
Body Image Assessment and Its Clinical Application....Pages 390-391
Assessing the Motivation and Cognition of Physically Handicapped by a Simulator....Pages 391-391
Conceptual Implications of Bias....Pages 395-395
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Explaining Item Bias....Pages 396-396
Latent Class Representation of Systematic Patterns in Test Responses....Pages 397-397
Approaches for Identifying and Understanding Bias in Test Items....Pages 398-399
Group Differences in Structured Tests....Pages 399-400
Individual Response Hierarchies: A Neglected Issue in the Assessment of States and Traits....Pages 400-401
Applying Appropriateness Measures in Achievement and Personality Assessment....Pages 402-402
An IP Approach Towards a Structural Theory of Item-Equivalence....Pages 403-404
A Holistic Problem-Solving Approach to Reasoning Personality and Intelligence....Pages 404-405
Cognition and Motivation — Bringing Them Together....Pages 405-406
The Construction and Use of a Learning Process Test....Pages 409-410
Potential Applications of the New Research Arena with the Positron Emission Tomographer (Pet) to the Field of Learning and Its Disorders....Pages 411-411
Motivation and Information Processing in Learning Experiments....Pages 412-413
Assessing Creative Use of Learning....Pages 413-414
Trait Anxiety and Cognitive Task Performance....Pages 417-418
Constraints on Cognitive Skills....Pages 418-418
Direct Temporal Analysis of Individual Differences in Cognitive Skill....Pages 419-420
Covariation of Video Game Cognitive Effort and Pupil Diameter....Pages 420-421
Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Motivation....Pages 422-422
Attunement of Encoding Affect, Attention and Their Effect on Memory of Mood of Narrative....Pages 423-424
Goals and Strategies for Portraying Cognitive Structures....Pages 424-425
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
Quantifiers and Context....Pages 426-427
Temperamental Individuality and Behaviour Problems in Childhood....Pages 431-431
Nigerian Field Research with Infants and Mothers: Studies of Perception, Communication and Interaction....Pages 432-432
Operationalisation of Various Conceptions of the Emic-Etic Distinction....Pages 433-433
Explanation of Structural Cerebral Asymmetries....Pages 434-434
Studies of the Factor Structure and External Validity of Social Intelligence Tests....Pages 435-435
Effects of Self Control and Payment Manipulation on the Performance of Complex Tasks Under Time-Sharing Conditions....Pages 436-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-495