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Creative Thinking Ability: Domain Generality and Specificity

Creativity Research Journal, 2010
The relationship between domain-general and domain-specific creative thinking ability was examined in 3 studies using structural equation modeling. Learning disability, ethnicity, gender, and age/grade were included in the model to test their differential effects on general and specific creative thinking.
Hong, Eunsook, Milgram, Roberta M.
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Specific Abilities in Accounting and Economics

Educational Psychology, 1994
Keef (1990) proposed and tested a model of specific abilities based on the premise that they were unique to pairs of academic subjects. This paper seeks to extend the study and to explore the degree that the specific abilities differed between the university entrance examinations of accounting and economics. Two major results were reported.
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Intelligence and Specific Cognitive Abilities in Children

Journal of Individual Differences, 2009
This community-based study investigated the relationships between measures of specific cognitive functions (such as working memory [WM] and interference control) and intelligence in 283 8- to 11-year-old children, including 124 children who fulfilled criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis. A hierarchical regression analysis was used to overcome issues of
Carin M. Tillman, Gunilla Bohlin, Lin Sörensen, Astri J. Lundervold   +3 more
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Climbing Sports Effect Specific Visual-Spatial Abilities

Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity, 2018
Abstract Physically active people show better visual-spatial abilities than physically inactive people. Especially athletes with response times based on competition times, such as wrestling, outperform other athletes. This quasi-experimental study examines the relationship of long-term activity in sport climbing, which is a typical non ...
Stefanie Pietsch, Petra Jansen
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Comparison of parent-offspring resemblance for specific cognitive abilities

Behavior Genetics, 1980
A battery of cognitive ability tests identical to that used in the Hawaii Family Study was administered to a set of Caucasian families who participated in the Boulder Family Study. Resemblances between parents and offspring were compared with those from the Hawaii, Korean, and other recent family studies, using the same cognitive tests.
K P, Spuhler, S G, Vandenberg
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New 'open-chain cryptands? with specific ion transport abilities

Journal of Inclusion Phenomena, 1984
A new family of macrocyclic polyethers and polyamines having pendant “arms” available for cation binding were prepared and examined as synthetic ion carriers. They offered characteristic cation transport phenomena, based on their unique ligand topology. By appropriate choice of parent macgocyclic ligand and pendant donor group, specific transport of K+,
Hiroshi Tsukube, Kentaro Takagi, Tatsuo Higashiyama, Tadashi Iwachido, Naomi Hayama   +4 more
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Is Analyst Earnings Forecast Ability Only Firm-Specific?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
The state of the art in the analyst forecasting literature is that earnings forecast ability is firm-specific (Chen, Francis, and Jiang 2005; Chen and Jiang 2006). This view is based on Park and Stice (2000)'s finding of the absence of a spillover effect; i.e., when reacting to analyst forecast revisions of firm j, investors ignore analyst forecast ...
LAWRENCE D. BROWN, EMAD MOHAMMAD
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Modality-specific information processing and intellectual ability

Intelligence, 1980
Abstract Two groups of children, one of below average intelligence and one of above average intelligence, were adminitered nine tasks involving matching information between auditory and visual modalities and temporal and spatial presentations. The below average intelligence children made more matching errors than the above average intelligence group,
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Domain-specific risk preference and cognitive ability

Economics Letters, 2016
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Task-specific abilities in multi-task principal–agent relationships

Labour Economics, 2009
This paper analyzes a multi-task agency framework where the agent exhibits task-specific abilities. It illustrates how incentive contracts account for the agent's task-specific abilities if contractible performance measures do not reflect the agent's multidimensional contribution to firm value.
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