Empirical and computational investigations of the relationship between intelligence and development: mental-age matching studies of cognitive variability in the normal range

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 TABLE
OF
CONTENTS................................................................................................................... 6
 LIST
OF
FIGURES..........................................................................................................................12
 LIST
OF
TABLES ...........................................................................................................................20
 LIST
OF
EQUATIONS ...................................................................................................................21
 CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................22
 RESEARCH
QUESTION ...................................................................................................................................22
 BACKGROUND.................................................................................................................................................22
 THE
AIMS
OF
THE
THESIS .............................................................................................................................24
 THE
STRUCTURE
OF
THE
THESIS.................................................................................................................25
 PART
1 ............................................................................................................................................27
 CHAPTER
2
LITERATURE
REVIEW ........................................................................................27
 CONCEPTIONS
OF
INTELLIGENCE................................................................................................................27
 ASSESSING
ABILITY .......................................................................................................................................29
 The
individual
differences
approach ...............................................................................................29
 The
cognitive
development
approach .............................................................................................31
 VARIABILITY
IN
INTELLIGENCE
AND
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT:
LEVELS
OF
DESCRIPTION...........33
 The
gene
level.............................................................................................................................................34
 The
brain
level ...........................................................................................................................................34
 The
cognitive
level....................................................................................................................................35
 Speed
of
processing ...........................................................................................................................................................35
 Inhibition ................................................................................................................................................................................36
 Capacity ...................................................................................................................................................................................37
 Complexity .............................................................................................................................................................................37
 EMPIRICAL
INVESTIGATIONS
INTO
THE
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN
INTELLIGENCE
AND
COGNITIVE
 DEVELOPMENT...............................................................................................................................................37