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

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Ren, Xuezhu ^a   Goldhammer, Frank ^b   Moosbrugger, Helfried ^a   Schweizer, Karl ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Executive attention; Intelligence; Perceptual attention; Position effect; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855460460     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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