Salthouse Timothy A
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Assessment. 2014 Apr;21(2):131-42. doi: 10.1177/1073191113486690. Epub 2013 Apr 28.
It is widely accepted that abilities are a meaningful level of abstraction for distinguishing among individuals with respect to their levels of cognitive functioning. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which different combinations of tests reflect the same cognitive abilities, or about the relation of cognitive abilities in one test battery with specific tests in another battery. Data from two cognitive batteries were analyzed to determine the correspondence of ability factors in the two batteries, and to evaluate the relative influence of cognitive abilities from one battery on the subtest scores in the other battery. Although the batteries involved different combinations of tests, correlations between the theoretically similar ability factors in the two batteries were very high (i.e., r > .84). Furthermore, with only a few exceptions, the primary influences on the subtest scores in one battery were from the theoretically relevant ability factor in the other battery.
人们普遍认为,能力是区分个体认知功能水平的一个有意义的抽象层次。然而,对于不同测试组合在多大程度上反映相同的认知能力,或者一个测试组中的认知能力与另一个测试组中的特定测试之间的关系,我们所知相对较少。分析了来自两个认知测试组的数据,以确定两个测试组中能力因素的对应关系,并评估一个测试组中的认知能力对另一个测试组中各子测试分数的相对影响。尽管这两个测试组涉及不同的测试组合,但两个测试组中理论上相似的能力因素之间的相关性非常高(即r > .84)。此外,除了少数例外情况,一个测试组中各子测试分数的主要影响来自另一个测试组中理论上相关的能力因素。