Faster on easy items, more accurate on difficult ones: Cognitive ability and performance on a task of varying difficulty

Intelligence

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Dodonova, Yulia A ^a   Dodonov, Yury S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Cognitive ability; Response time; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869213693     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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