An exploratory analysis of American Indian children's cultural engagement, fluid cognitive skills, and standardized verbal IQ scores.

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Tsethlikai
1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Tim Rakow ◽  
Ivan Sarmany-Schuller ◽  
Filip De Fruyt

In this study, 140 Belgian, 227 British, and 177 Slovakian students estimated their own multiple IQ scores as well as that of their parents (mother and father) and siblings (first and second brother and sister). Various factor analyses yielded a clear three-factor structure replicating previous studies. A sex × culture ANOVA on self-ratings of three factors that underline the seven intelligences (verbal, numerical, cultural) showed culture and sex effects as well as interactions. As predicted, males rated their own overall IQ, though not that of their parents or siblings, higher than females did. Males also rated their numerical IQ, but not their verbal or cultural IQ, higher than females did. There were few culture differences but many interactions, nearly all caused by Slovakian females, who rated aspects of their own and their fathers' IQ higher than Slovakian males, while the pattern for the Belgians was precisely the opposite. Participants believed their verbal IQ was higher than their numerical IQ and their cultural IQ. Males believed their verbal and numerical IQ score to be fairly similar, though much higher than their cultural IQ, while females believed their verbal IQ the highest, followed by numerical and cultural IQ. Females also believed they were more intelligent than both parents. Overall results showed consistency in the sex differences in ratings across cultures but differences in level of estimated IQ possibly as a result of cultural demands for modesty.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 56-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney K. Hsing ◽  
Alicia J. HofelichMohr ◽  
R. Brent Stansfield ◽  
Stephanie D. Preston

Alexithymia is a multifaceted personality construct related to deficits in the recognition and verbalization of emotions. It is uncertain what causes alexithymia or which stage of emotion processing is first affected. The current study was designed to determine if trait alexithymia was associated with impaired early semantic decoding of facial emotion. Participants performed the Emostroop task, which varied the presentation time of faces depicting neutral, angry, or sad expressions before the classification of angry or sad adjectives. The Emostroop effect was replicated, represented by slowed responses when the classified word was incongruent with the background facial emotion. Individuals with high alexithymia were slower overall across all trials, particularly when classifying sad adjectives; however, they did not differ on the basic Emostroop effect. Our results suggest that alexithymia does not stem from lower-level problems detecting and categorizing others’ facial emotions. Moreover, their impairment does not appear to extend uniformly across negative emotions and is not specific to angry or threatening stimuli as previously reported, at least during early processing. Almost in contrast to the expected impairment, individuals with high alexithymia and lower verbal IQ scores had even more pronounced Emostroop effects, especially when the face was displayed longer.To better understand the nature of alexithymia, future research needs to further disentangle the precise phase of emotion processing and forms of affect most affected in this relatively common condition


1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Hopkins ◽  
Glenn H. Bracht

Intelligence tests continue to be the most widely used measures of cognitive aptitudes. Performance on such measures is usually expressed as an IQ score. Popular opinion to the contrary, relatively little is known about the long term measuring of IQ scores from group verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests, especially the latter. This study shows that, below ten years of age, stability in IQ scores from group verbal tests is considerably below that for the Stanford-Binet. Non-verbal IQ scores were found to have substantially less stability than Verbal IQs.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 126 (5) ◽  
pp. e1095-e1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Edmonds ◽  
E. B. Isaacs ◽  
T. J. Cole ◽  
M. H. Rogers ◽  
J. Lanigan ◽  
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1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Beitchman ◽  
Pat Patterson ◽  
Bob Gelfand ◽  
Gillian Minty

The WISC-RIQ scores of 85 children between 7 and 12 years of age taken from the inpatient, outpatient and day care facilities of a Regional Treatment Centre were compared with the expected IQ scores of the standard normal population. In addition, analysis of variance techniques were used to test for an association between IQ variables and seven operationally defined symptom subtypes taken from the child's chart. Significant differences between the clinical sample and the standard normal population were found for the distribution and means for full scale IQ and verbal IQ but not performance IQ. In addition, significant associations were found between FSIQ and the level of aggressive symptoms, and between VIQ and the level of hyperkinetic and aggressive symptom subtypes. The importance of IQ variables and in particular VIQ in understanding the nature of childhood psychiatric disorder is emphasized. The implications of these findings for educational policy are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Worhach ◽  
Madeline Boduch ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Kiran Maski

In this pilot study, we assessed the reliability of cognitive testing for kids and adolescents ages 8-19 years of age with narcolepsy or subjective daytime sleepiness compared to healthy controls. Forty-six participants took part in the study (n=18 with narcolepsy type 1, n=6 with subjective daytime sleepiness, and n= 22 healthy controls recruited from the community). Participants completed verbal (vocabulary testing) and non-verbal intelligence quotient (IQ) tasks (block design, matrix reasoning) from the Weschler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence- Second Edition (WASI-II) in-person or remotely in their home through a HIPAA compliant telehealth web platform with conditions counterbalanced. We found that vocabulary T-scores showed good reliability with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.76 (95% CI: 0.64, 0.85) between remote and in-person testing conditions. Matrix Reasoning T-scores showed moderate reliability ( ICC 0.69, 95% CI: 0.68, 0.90) and Block Design T-scores was poor between testing conditions. Bland-Altman plots showed outliers on vocabulary and matrix reasoning tasks performed better on remote assessments. Overall, the results of this pilot study support the feasibility and reliability of verbal and non-verbal IQ scores collected by telehealth. Use of telehealth to collect verbal and non-verbal IQ scores may offer a means to acquire cognitive data for pediatric sleep research through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
ELISE AG DUWE

This paper will explore the difficult conversations and places of tension in the lived experience of chronic pain for urban American Indians from a larger study discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization. A concurrent transformative mixed methods design with in-depth interviews and a survey was used for the larger study. This paper concerns only the qualitative data. Forty self-identified American Indian adults living in Indiana, Chicago, and Tulsa who reported pain for greater than three months provided their chronic pain illness experiences for this paper. The paper uses three data-derived themes to encompass the broad reaching social, psychological, and cultural suffering inherent in coping with chronic pain: invisibility, psychological peace, and warrior strength. American Indian chronic pain sufferers in this study struggle with the multiplicative invisibility of both their chronic pain and their native identity. The invisibility leads to passing as white in environments hostile to people of color. It also results in family disconnection, loneliness, and isolation. In order to survive socially-mediated assaults, American Indian chronic pain sufferers keep their psyche at peace through stress management, cultural engagement, and non-negativity. They also call upon warrior strength—their understanding that American Indians as peoples have always survived bolsters their individual strength to push through the pain. They seek to function without further debility and to maintain their economic, spiritual, social, and physical wellness. Ultimately the participants in this research tell a profound, critical, and world-changing story that requires attention in overcoming barriers to full thriving with chronic pain.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remy Pages ◽  
John Protzko ◽  
Drew H Bailey

Early life interventions impacting cognitive abilities are most often followed by post-treatment fadeout. Some have hypothesized that persistence is unlikely when gains are specific to trained skills, or more specifically, distinguishable from impacts on general cognitive ability (classically modeled as a hierarchical factor, so-called psychometric g). Using measurement invariance testing and multiple indicators multiple causes models, we investigated impacts on IQ subtests from the Abecedarian early childhood intervention (n = 107). We found that 1) observed impacts on IQ scores from age 5 to age 21 were consistent with persistent positive effects on g; 2) subtest-specific variance that was differentiable from changes on g did fade. Together, these findings indicated that Abecedarian early impact persisted across a range of cognitive skills, providing some evidence for the hypothesis that breadth and persistence of impacts from educational interventions are related.


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