Learning and Individual Differences

by Ackerman, Phillip Lawrence; Kyllonen, Patrick C.; Roberts, Richard D.

• ISBN13: 9781557985361
• ISBN10: 1557985367
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Based on a conference held at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in October 1997. Provides a compre- hensive overview of research in individual differences pertaining to multiple aspects of learning. For researchers and practitioners.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Conference Participants	xiii
Foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xxi
I. GENERAL BACKGROUND AND PERSPECTIVES
Intelligence and Human Resources: Past, Present, and Future	3	(28)
Earl Hunt
Individual Differences in Learning and Memory: Psychometrics and the Single Case	31	(24)
Alan Baddeley
Susan Gathercole
Minding Our p's and q's: On Finding Relationships Between Learning and Intelligence	55	(22)
David F. Lohman
Investigating the Paths Between Working Memory, Intelligence, Knowledge, and Complex Problem-Solving Performances via Brunswik Symmetry	77	(34)
Werner W. Wittmann
Heinz-Martin Suβ
II. PROCESSES
Intelligence and Visual and Auditory Information Processing	111	(24)
Ian J. Deary
Individual Differences in Priming: The Roles of Implicit Facilitation From Prior Processing	135	(26)
Dan J. Woltz
Learning, Automaticity, and Attention: An Individual-Differences Approach	161	(26)
Edward Necka
III. METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES
The Structure of Ability Profile Patterns: A Multidimensional Scaling Perspective on the Structure of Intellect	187	(22)
Mark L. Davison
Haijiang Kuang
Se-Kang Kim
Investigating Theoretical Propositions Regarding Mental Abilities: Their Structure, Growth, and Influence	209	(22)
Keith F. Widaman
Exploiting the Speed--Accuracy Trade-Off	231	(20)
David E. Wright
Ian Dennis
IV. TRAITS
Personality and Skill: A Cognitive--Adaptive Framework	251	(24)
Gerald Matthews
Measuring and Understanding G: Experimental and Correlational Approaches	275	(18)
Jan-Eric Gustafsson
Individual Differences in Motivation: Traits and Self-Regulatory Skills	293	(22)
Ruth Kanfer
Eric D. Heggestad
Mining on the ``No Man's Land'' Between Intelligence and Personality	315	(24)
Lazar Stankov
Sensory Processes Within the Structure of Human Cognitive Abilities	339	(32)
Richard D. Roberts
Gerry Pallier
Ginger Nelson Goff
V. CONTENT
Searching for Determinants of Performance in Complex Domains	371	(18)
Richard K. Wagner
Individual Differences in Reasoning and the Heuristics and Biases Debate	389	(24)
Keith E. Stanovich
Richard F. West
Learner Profiles: Valuing Individual Differences Within Classroom Communities	413	(24)
Patricia A. Alexander
P. Karen Murphy
Traits and Knowledge as Determinants of Learning and Individual Differences: Putting It All Together	437	(26)
Phillip L. Ackerman
Author Index	463	(12)
Subject Index	475	(6)
About the Editors	481