Understanding planning ability measured by the tower of London: An evaluation of its internal structure by latent variable modeling

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 923-934

  Koppenol Gonzalez, Gabriela V ^a   Bouwmeester, Samantha ^a   Boonstra, A Marije ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Internal validity; Latent variable modeling; Planning; Tower of London

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOWER OF LONDON; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650090421     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020826     Document Type: Article

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