Performance in four jobs: The role of mental ability and experience.

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vineberg ◽  
Elaine N. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Ability

Specific Cognitive Abilities at Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Krumm ◽  
Lothar Schmidt-Atzert ◽  
Anastasiya A. Lipnevich
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mental Ability ◽  
General Mental Ability ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Specific Cognitive Abilities

Recent findings suggest that the role of specific cognitive abilities in predicting work-related criteria may be critical and may add to the widely demonstrated importance of general mental ability. To summarize and organize these findings, the current paper puts forward two perspectives on the role of specific cognitive abilities in predicting work-related outcomes. Similarities and discrepancies of these perspectives are outlined together with suggestions for boundary conditions of the dominance of general versus specific cognitive abilities. Finally, avenues for future research within and across the two perspectives are discussed.

scholarly journals Role of the matching familiar figures test-20 in the analysis of theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity: a study with personality

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Carretero-Dios ◽  
Macarena De los Santos-Roig ◽  
Gualberto Buela-Casal
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Mental Ability ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Divergent Validity ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Matching Familiar Figures Test ◽  
Reflection Impulsivity

The present study analyzes the theoretical validity of the cognitive style reflection-impulsivity with an approach based on cognition. For this purpose, it is explored the relationship between personality and reflection-impulsivity. The Matching Familiar Figures Test 20, MFFT-20 (Cairns & Cammock, 1978) was used. This test has not been employed in previous investigations with the same goal. However, the MFFT-20 has proved to be the most reliable test to assess reflection-impulsivity in children between six and twelve years old, and is the one recommended by specialized bibliography. The assessment of personality was made by means of the Spanish adaptation of the Children´s Personality Questionnaire, CPQ (Porter & Cattell, 1979). Results obtained from a sample of 94 participants between eleven and twelve years old indicate the inexistence of correlation between the studied dimensions of personality and reflection-impulsivity. As hypothesized, the only consistent and significant relationships were those of the scale of mental ability in the CPQ, and the dimension dominant-submissive, both interpreted within the frame of cognitive styles. Obtained data support the theoretical validity of the reflection-impulsivity with an approach based on cognition, as well as the divergent validity of the MFFT-20 for a sample of Spanish children

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