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Law, Justin |
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Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Working Memory on Behavior Problems Presented: Madrid, Spain, International Society for Intelligence Research 10th Annual Conference, December 2009 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: International Society for Intelligence Research Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Digit Span (also see Memory for Digit Span - WISC); Intelligence; Memory for Digit Span (WISC) - also see Digit Span; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines the effects of working memory (WM) on behavior problems, based on the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) data. Digit Span–Backwards was used as a measure of WM and the Behavior Problems Index was used for the behavior measure. The data set includes children of the original NLSY cohort. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test–Revised was used to control for intelligence effects. Various other factors were also controlled: sex of participants, short-term memory, and SES. The study sought to determine if changes in working memory translate into behavior problems. WM showed a nonlinear growth. Higher WM was associated with fewer hyperactive and institutional problems. Children who initially tested high in WM showed smaller increases in internalizing behaviors. |
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Law, Justin. "Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Working Memory on Behavior Problems." Presented: Madrid, Spain, International Society for Intelligence Research 10th Annual Conference, December 2009. |
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee Ang, Siew Ching Beaujean, A. Alexander Cooper-Twamley, Susan |
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Further Examination of the NLSY PIAT-Math and PPVT-R Items that Exhibit the Flynn Effect Presented: Madrid, Spain, International Society for Intelligence Research 10th Annual Conference, December 17-19, 2009 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: International Society for Intelligence Research Keyword(s): Flynn Effect; I.Q.; Intelligence Tests; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The corpus of Flynn Effect (FE) research has examined differences in aggregated IQ and IQ-equivalent scores over time, paying little attention to the items that comprise these scores. In doing so, they assume that all the items act very similarly, which may not be the case. Consequently, by not using item-level data, such studies do not analyze all the information available from a test administration. In the current paper we evaluate the Flynn Effect at the item level in PIAT-Math and PPVT-R from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. Extending the work previously done by Rodgers and Ang (2008), this study compares the PIAT-Math items that Rodgers and Ang found to exhibit non-invariance over time using item-level unstandardized regression slopes with the PIAT-Math items Beaujean and Osterlind (2008) found to exhibit non-invariance over time using item response theory. Second, again following Rodgers and Ang, this study examines the item content of the PPVT-R items that Beaujean and Osterlind found to exhibit non-invariance over time. Preliminary analysis shows that many of the PPVT-R items that exhibited noninvariance were in the interpersonal domain, with a less strong relationship being found with items in the home (e.g., furniture, appliances) and environment (foliage, terrain) domains. |
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Rodgers, Joseph Lee, Siew Ching Ang, A. Alexander Beaujean and Susan Cooper-Twamley. "Further Examination of the NLSY PIAT-Math and PPVT-R Items that Exhibit the Flynn Effect." Presented: Madrid, Spain, International Society for Intelligence Research 10th Annual Conference, December 17-19, 2009. |