Do Purpose-Designed Auditory Tasks Measure General Speediness?

• 作者: Ian T. Zajac Nicholas R. Burns Ted Nettelbeck
• 来源期刊: 智能科学国际期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: AUDITORY INTELLIGENCE AUDITORY ABILITIES INTELLIGENCE COGNITION SPEED of Processing
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（2）
• 页码范围: 23-31
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

This study was concerned with the measurement of General Speediness (Gs) using the auditory modality. Existing as well as purpose-developed auditory tasks that maintained the cognitive requirements of established visually presented Gs marker tests were completed by N = 80 university undergraduates. Analyses supported the results of our previous work [1] and auditory and visual tasks combined to define latent RT and Gs factors. Moreover, the analysis did not support the presence of modality-specific speed factors. Overall, this study provides further evidence suggesting that auditory tasks might successfully measure existing broad abilities defined in intelligence theories (i.e., Gf, Gc, etc.) provided they maintain the same cognitive requirements as existing visual measures of such constructs.