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Peer reviewedSternberg, Robert J. – American Psychologist, 1979
Mental abilities can be analyzed at four levels: composite tasks, subtasks, components, and metacomponents. Each level of analysis reveals something about the structure and content of mental abilities responsible for intelligent performance. (Author/WI)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Deduction
Download full textSternberg, Robert J.; Nigro, Georgia – 1977
A six-process theory of analogical reasoning was tested by administering verbal analogy items to students in grades 3 through college. The items were classified according to five verbal relations: synonyms, antonyms, functional, linear ordering, and class membership. A new method of componential analysis that does not require precueing was used to…
Descriptors: Analogy, Componential Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
