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VERBALISATION EFFECTS IN A ‘NON‐VERBAL’ INTELLIGENCE TEST
Author(s) -
RADFORD J.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1966.tb01837.x
Subject(s) - psychology , analogy , test (biology) , raven's progressive matrices , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , reinforcement , social psychology , cognition , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
S ummary . TWO experiments were carried out with a total of ninety children aged between 9 and 12 to investigate the effects of verbalising on problem solving. The problems were those of the Progressive Matrices intelligence tests. It was found that performance improved when subjects were asked to give reasons for their choices and these reasons were verbally reinforced. Reinforcement is thought to have had the effect of decreasing stereotyped responses. An analogy between intelligence tests of this type and Harlow's (1949, 1959) ‘learning sets,’ suggested by Cashdan, 1961, is rejected.