Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Fluid intelligence tests, measuring one's ability to solve novel problems without prior knowledge, are increasingly popular as a measure of far transfer from working memory training tasks.Creating mobile measurements that can be repeatedly administered with different items is crucial to enable more complex investigations of individual differences and cognitive ability training.The present study tests the validity of newly generated variants of existing fluid intelligence problems.The original 23 problem sets we used came from a recently developed mobile test, the University of California Matrix Reasoning Task (UCMRT).We have created a test question tool that can be used to manually generate variants of the existing problems with alterations to colors, shapes, rotations, and orientations.These newly generated variants will be validated to determine whether they are the same difficulty level as the original problems.Following validation of these variants, the question generation tool will be developed further to allow automated creation of new test problems.Implementation of automated problem generation will enable repeated testing of the same individuals to more accurately measure the effects of working memory training tasks over time.
Author: David W. May
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3194664701