Task Complexity and The Speed and Efficiency of Elemental Information Processing : Another Look at The Nature of Intellectual Giftdness  

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Whang, Patricia A. ; Kranzler, John H. ; Jensen, Arthur R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Educational Psychology vol. 19 no. 04 (Oct. 1994), page 447-459.
Topik: task complexity; nature; intellectual; giftdness; elemental information processing; speed; task complexity

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study examined the speed and efficiency of elemental processing among the intellectually gifted. Groups of gifted and no gifted junior high school students were compared on several elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs) with no symbolic content and different degrees of requisite processing complexity. After controlling for the potentially confounding effect of knowledge base on the ECTs, results of this study further substantiated the significant relationship between elemental processing, task complexity, and intellectual giftedness. Differences between the gifted and no gifted groups on the ECT parameters increased monotonically with task complexity. Moreover, despite the fact that the ECTs used in this study have no information content and require no higher-order or metaprocesses for successful task completion, discriminant function analyses including the various elemental processing speed and efficiency measures correctly classified approximately 80% of all subjects. Implications of these results for theory relating giftedness to the speed and efficiency of elemental cognitive processes are discussed.

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