Cognitive-Components Tests Are Not Much More thang: An Extension of Kyllonen's Analyses
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in The Journal of General Psychology
- Vol. 123 (3), 193-205
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1996.9921272
Abstract
A battery of 10 traditional paper-and-pencil aptitude tests and a battery of 25 cognitive-components-based tests were administered to 298 men and women to investigate the common sources of variance in those batteries. Earlier confirmatory factor analyses showed each battery to have a hierarchical structure, each with a single higher order factor. The higher order factor in the paper-and-pencil battery had previously been identified as general cognitive ability, or g. The higher order factor from the cognitive-components battery had been identified as working memory. The intercorrelation of the higher order factors from the two batteries was .994, indicating that both measured g. The proportion of common variance because of g was greater in the cognitive-components battery than in the paper-and-pencil battery. The correlations between each factor based on cognitive components and g averaged .946. Despite theoretical foundations and arguments, cognitive components tests appear to measure much the same thing as traditional paper-and-pencil tests.Keywords
This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
- Factor Structure of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test: Analysis and ComparisonMilitary Psychology, 1996
- Prediction of Situational Awareness in F-15 PilotsThe International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 1996
- What is a good g?Intelligence, 1994
- Aptitude Testing Inspired by Information Processing: A Test of the Four-Sources ModelThe Journal of General Psychology, 1993
- Integrating laboratory and field study for improving selection: Development of a battery for predicting air traffic controller success.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1993
- Comparative fit indexes in structural models.Psychological Bulletin, 1990
- Validation of an information-processing-based test battery for the prediction of handling accidents among petroleum-product transport drivers.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1990
- Validity and utility of alternative predictors of job performance.Psychological Bulletin, 1984
- Corrections for range restriction: An empirical investigation of conditions resulting in conservative corrections.Journal of Applied Psychology, 1981
- Aptitude testing.Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,1928