TY - JOUR
T1 - Concepts of Mental Activities and Verbs in Children of High and Average Verbal Intelligence
AU - Alexander, Joyce M.
AU - Noyes, Caroline R.
AU - MacBrayer, Elizabeth K.
AU - Schwanenflugel, Paula J.
AU - Fabricius, William
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In order to understand the contribution of increased cognitive abilities to children's naive theories of mind, children of high and average verbal intelligence rated their understanding of the interrelationships between and among mental activities and verbs. In Study 1, participants rated the similarity of pairs of prototypical mental activity scenarios according to the "way you use your mind" in each one. The scenarios represented the categories of list memory, prospective memory, comprehension, selective attention, inference, planning, comparison, and recognition. In Study 2, participants rated the similarity of cognitive and affective verbs (e.g., decide, memorize, love, worry). Multi-dimensional scaling and clustering analyses indicated very similar organization and structure of concepts in children of high and average verbal intelligence in both studies. These results add to the growing body of literature suggesting that metacognitive development and its association with intelligence differ depending on the type of metacognition being examined (Alexander, Carr, & Schwanenflugel, 1995).
AB - In order to understand the contribution of increased cognitive abilities to children's naive theories of mind, children of high and average verbal intelligence rated their understanding of the interrelationships between and among mental activities and verbs. In Study 1, participants rated the similarity of pairs of prototypical mental activity scenarios according to the "way you use your mind" in each one. The scenarios represented the categories of list memory, prospective memory, comprehension, selective attention, inference, planning, comparison, and recognition. In Study 2, participants rated the similarity of cognitive and affective verbs (e.g., decide, memorize, love, worry). Multi-dimensional scaling and clustering analyses indicated very similar organization and structure of concepts in children of high and average verbal intelligence in both studies. These results add to the growing body of literature suggesting that metacognitive development and its association with intelligence differ depending on the type of metacognition being examined (Alexander, Carr, & Schwanenflugel, 1995).
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U2 - 10.1177/001698629804200103
DO - 10.1177/001698629804200103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347566109
SN - 0016-9862
VL - 42
SP - 16
EP - 27
JO - Gifted Child Quarterly
JF - Gifted Child Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -