Troche, Stefan J.; Wagner, Felicitas L.; Völke, Annik; Roebers, Claudia M.; Rammsayer, Thomas H. (2014). Individual differences in working memory capacity explain the relationship between general discrimination ability and psychometric intelligence. Intelligence, 44, pp. 40-50. Elsevier 10.1016/j.intell.2014.02.009
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The close association between psychometric intelligence and general discrimination ability (GDA), conceptualized as latent variable derived from performance on different sensory discrimination tasks, is empirically well-established but theoretically widely unclear. The present study contrasted two alternative explanations for this association. The first explanation is based on what Spearman (1904) referred to as a central function underlying this relationship in the sense of the g factor of intelligence and becoming most evident in GDA. In this case, correlations between different aspects of cognitive abilities, such as working memory (WM) capacity, and psychometric intelligence should be mediated by GDA if their correlation is caused by g. Alternatively, the second explanation for the relationship between psychometric intelligence and GDA proceeds from fMRI studies which emphasize the role of WM functioning for sensory discrimination. Given the well-known relationship between WM and psychometric intelligence, the relationship between GDA and psychometric intelligence might be attributed to WM. The present study investigated these two alternative explanations at the level of latent variables. In 197 young adults, a model in which WM mediated the relationship between GDA and psychometric intelligence described the data better than a model in which GDA mediated the relationship between WM and psychometric intelligence. Moreover, GDA failed to explain portions of variance of psychometric intelligence above and beyond WM. These findings clearly support the view that the association between psychometric intelligence and GDA must be understood in terms of WM functioning.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology 10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory (CCLM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Troche, Stefan, Wagner, Felicitas Lony, Völke, Annik, Roebers, Claudia, Rammsayer, Thomas |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
0160-2896 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Karin Dubler |
Date Deposited: |
01 Dec 2014 15:30 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.intell.2014.02.009 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.60210 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/60210 |
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