Krautter Kai, Lehmann Jessica, Kleinort Eva, Koch Marco, Spinath Frank M, Becker Nicolas
Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 15;12:619440. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.619440. eCollection 2021.
It is well documented that training the rules employed in figural matrices tests enhances test performance. Previous studies only compare experimental conditions in which all or no rules were trained and therefore ignore the particular influence of knowledge about the easy and difficult rules. With the current study, we wanted to provide some first insights into this topic. Respondents were assigned to four groups that received training for no rules, only the easy rules, only the difficult rules, or for all rules. The results show that a training only for the difficult rules was more effective than the other trainings. This applies also to performance in the easy rules that were actually not part of the training. A possible explanation for this finding is a facilitation of the solution process that is primarily driven by knowledge about the difficult rules. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that taking differences between the rules into account may provide a deeper understanding of the effects of trainings for figural matrices tests.
有充分的文献记载，训练图形矩阵测试中使用的规则可提高测试成绩。以往的研究仅比较了全部规则或无规则接受训练的实验条件，因此忽略了关于简单和困难规则的知识的特定影响。通过本研究，我们希望对这一主题提供一些初步见解。将受访者分为四组，分别接受无规则训练、仅简单规则训练、仅困难规则训练或所有规则训练。结果表明，仅对困难规则进行训练比其他训练更有效。这也适用于实际上并非训练一部分的简单规则的表现。这一发现的一个可能解释是，主要由关于困难规则的知识驱动的解决过程得到了促进。总之，我们的结果表明，考虑规则之间的差异可能会更深入地理解图形矩阵测试训练的效果。
