Measuring cognitive ability with the overclaiming technique
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Measuring cognitive ability with the overclaiming technique
The overclaiming technique requires respondents to rate their familiarity with a list of general knowledge items (persons, places, things). Because 20% of the items are foils (i.e., do not exist), the response pattern can be analyzed with signal detection methods to yield the accuracy and bias scores for each respondent. In Study 1, the accuracy index showed strong associations with two standar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Intelligence
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0160-2896
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2004.02.001