General learning ability
Tests making up the general learning ability, and their description:
Test Description
- Analytic
reasoning
Evaluates the capacity to discover rules and use them to solve reasoning
problems.
Consists of two subscales:
Reasoning subscale A (inductive)
- Includes 12 items
- Timing 7 minutes
Reasoning subscale B (deductive) - Includes 12 items
- Timing 7 minutes
- Analogical
transfer
Evaluates the capacity to apply previously acquired knowledge in novel
situations.
- Includes 22 tasks
- Timing 5 minutes
- Flexibility in
categorization
Evaluates the capacity to rapidly switch categorization criteria and group
objects based on the new criterion.
- Includes 9 items, each with three classification criteria
(taxonomy, function, perception) – 27 sets of images in total - Timing 3 minutes
- Cognitive
inhibition and
short-term
memory
Evaluates the capacity to ignore irrelevant information flow, as well as
remember information for a brief while.
- Consists of 4 lists, each with 15 words to memorize
- Timing 6 minutes
- Working
memory
Evaluates the capacity of the cognitive system to hold for short time
relevant information and operate with it.
- Consists of 10 series with five rows of digits and letters, each row
consisting of a varied number of digits and letters - No time limit
- Cognitive
interference
Evaluates the capacity to resist intrusion of other information than
relevant.
- Includes three item lists (familiarization, neutral, and
interference, each item being made up of a group of 1 to 4 words) - No time limit
- Focused
attention
Evaluates the capacity to focus by negative set-off.
- Includes two lists of words naming colours, written in other
colours. Each list includes 48 words written in two columns, 24
words each - No time limit