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SUB‐CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ON SELECTED COGNITIVE TASKS
Author(s) -
MOLLOY G. N.
Publication year - 1981
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.2044-8279.1981.tb02462.x
Subject(s) - psychology , peabody picture vocabulary test , raven's progressive matrices , developmental psychology , test (biology) , cognition , vocabulary , linguistics , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
S ummary . The present study investigated some relationships between age, socio‐economic status (SES), and cognitive task performance among 120 children from Grades 1 and 4. A battery of tasks differing in transformational requirements and ostensibly in cultural loading was administered to all children. Analyses of results indicate that low SES children were more handicapped in some tasks of so‐called reasoning ability when compared to middle SES children. But contrary to expectations, the test scores of the contrasted SES groups were more disparate in Grade 1 than in Grade 4. For the older age group, SES differences on the culturally loaded Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) were apparent, whereas differences on the culturally‐reduced Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices were statistically non‐significant.