Strategy use fully mediates the relationship between working memory capacity and performance on Raven's matrices

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 916-924

  Gonthier, Corentin ^a   Thomassin, Noémylle ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; Individual differences; Raven's advanced progressive matrices; Strategy use; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942532235     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000101     Document Type: Article

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