Multivariate Structural Modeling of Plasticity in Fluid Intelligence of Aged Adults

Multivariate Behavioral Research
T Raykov

Abstract

This article is concerned with modeling the structure of cognitive intervention effects in adult intellectual development. Within the Cattell-Horn (Cattell, 1971 ; Horn, 1970, 1982) theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence, the ability of older adults to improve their performance on fluid intelligence tests, with or without tutor-guided instruction in test-relevant cognitive skills, is examined using multidimensional longitudinal structural equation models. The models reflect in some of their parameters substantively interesting aspects of temporal change at the ability level, and are applied to data from a two-group cognitive intervention study of plasticity in fluid intelligence of older adults (Baltes, Dittmann-Kohli, & Kliegl, 1986). Training effects are found in the experimental group that are more salient than the practice/experience effects in the control group; both types of effects are maintained over a six month testing period. Exploration of the nature of the practice effects in the control group reveals patterns of test performance improvement that are equivalent to those in the experimental group, as reflected in the interrelationships among initial ability levels and maximal improvements at the ability dimens...Continue Reading

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Jul 1, 2000·Multivariate Behavioral Research·T Raykov
Mar 17, 2010·Structural Equation Modeling : a Multidisciplinary Journal·Eun Young MunHelene R White
Feb 7, 2001·Annual Review of Psychology·R C MacCallum, J T Austin
Nov 19, 2005·The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology·Tenko Raykov, Spiridon Penev
Sep 1, 2006·Multivariate Behavioral Research·Tenko Raykov

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