The relationship of intelligence to executive function and non-executive function measures in a sample of average, above average, and gifted youth
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This study explores the relationship of intelligence to the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Color-Word Test, Oral Word Fluency Test, Design Fluency Test, Trail Making Test, contrasted with Rey Complex Figure Test, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Wide Range Achievement Test, and Underlining Test in average, above average and gifted children. Full-Scale IQ was significantly related to Wisconsin Card Sort Perseverative and Non-Perseverative Errors, Stroop Color-Word Test, Color-Word condition, Controlled Oral Word Fluency, Design Fluency, Rey Complex Figure, and Underlining conditions but not Trails or Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. MANCOVA's show gifted children outperformed other children on the executive but not the non-executive tests. Finally, the nature of the neuropsychological/IQ relationship was explored by further analyses.
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The difference in FSIQ was expected given the subgroups were delineated based on EF, which tends to be highly correlated with IQ metrics.
“The difference in FSIQ was expected given the subgroups were delineated based on EF, which tends to be highly correlated with IQ metrics (Arffa, 2007).”
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- Authors
- ARFFA, S.
- Corresponding author
- ARFFA, S
- Venue
- Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2007-11
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 969-978
- ISSN
- 0887-6177 (ISSN-L)
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- W2042505987
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- FWCI
- 9.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Locations
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical and Modern Theater Studies
- Keywords
- intelligence, executive function, gifted children, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop task, non-verbal fluency, Trail Making Test, Rey Complex Figure Test, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Wide Range Achievement Test, perseverative errors, neuropsychological performance, IQ
- MeSH terms
- Achievement, Adolescent, Child, Child, Gifted, Female, Humans, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Problem Solving, Multivariate Analysis
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