CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS ON INTELLECTUAL COMPETENCE

拟议的五阶段研究计划旨在 研究的性质，一般性和发展过程， “智能”，侧重于知识和背景在 塑造认知表现。 在研究计划的第一阶段，一组熟悉的语义和 字母数字刺激将被呈现给受试者作为两个 收敛缩放练习。 这些任务的目的是 确定这些刺激的长期表现 记忆，作为论点，预测和解释， 研究计划的后期阶段取决于这样一个 保持战略定力 在第二阶段，对智力成分进行微观评估 将进行（编码的速度）。 将介绍受试者 这些和新的刺激（运动棒球图像）在最低限度 起始持续时间和刺激间隔是编码 他们 如果编码操作可以基于 刺激的潜在表征的结构，这将 复杂的智力概念是基于 信息处理结构的神经学基础， 因为这样的结构将被证明是背景和刺激， 具体的，而不是指示神经功能的任何直接 道理啊 在研究计划的第三阶段， 将采取三种机制， 从语义记忆中检索信息的操作。 “语义距离效应”、“反向距离效应”和 “相同/不同效应”将作为 刺激表征的精细程度。 在第四阶段，将对智力进行宏观评估， 进行，侧重于复杂的思维和推理能力。 这里的目标是确定以下方面之间的相互关系： a）距离预测任务的复杂性，B）微观水平 信息处理参数，以及c）一个传统指标 智力功能，智商 推理任务将是 由不同复杂度的算法“驱动”， 熟悉的背景。 在第五阶段，将进一步开发生物生态模型， 说明前四个阶段的调查结果。 几 涉及专家和新手复杂性的经验测试 赌徒的思维和推理能力将得到贯彻， 生物生态模型将根据以下方面进行评估和扩展： 这些结果。 如果时间允许，将进行第六阶段。 这是由 这两组实验目前还只是部分公式化。

The proposed five-phase program of research is designed to investigate the nature, generality, and developmental course of "intelligence", focusing on the role of knowledge and context in shaping cognitive performance. In PHASE 1 of the research plan, a set of familiar semantic and alphanumeric stimuli will be presented to subjects as part of two covergent scaling exercises. The purpose of these tasks is to determine the representation of these stimuli in long term memory, as the arguments, predictions, and interpretations in later phases of the research plan depend upon such a determination. In PHASE 2 a micro-level assessment of intellectual components will be conducted (speed of encoding). Subjects will be presented these and novel stimuli (moving baseball images) at the minimum onset durations and interstimulus intervals necessary to encode them. If encoding operations can be differentiated on the basis of the structure of a stimulus' underlying representation, this would complicate notions of intelligence that are based on the neurological underpinnings of information processing constructs, as such constructs would be shown to be context- and stimulus- specific and not indicative of neural functioning in any direct sense. In PHASE 3 of the research plan, another micro-level assessment will be undertaken of three mechanisms governing the sequence of operations in retrieving information from semantic memory. "Semantic distance effects", "reverse distance effects", and the "same/different effect" will be explored as a function of the degree of elaborateness of a stimulus' representation. In PHASE 4 a macro-level assessment of intelligence will be carried out, focusing on complex thinking and reasoning skills. The goal here will be to determine the interrelationship between: a) complexity at a distance perdiction task, b) micro-level information processing parameters, and c) one traditional indicant of intellectual functioning, IQ. The reasoning tasks will be "driven" by algorithms of varying complexity and in novel vs familiar contexts. In PHASE 5, a bio-ecological model will be further developed to account for the findings from the four previous phases. Several empirical tests involving the complexity of expert and novice gamblers' thinking and reasoning skills will be carried out and the bio-ecological model will be evaluated and extended in light of these results. If time permits, PHASE 6 will be conducted. This is comprised of two sets of experiments that are as yet only partially formulated.