Navy recruits (n=243) participated in an examination of the relationship between strategy use and intelligence through paper-and-pencil and computer-administered tests that considered reaction time. Overall, results weaken arguments that strategy use is related to general intelligence and that strategy use is a robust, traitlike construct. (SLD)

A computerized adaptive test of word knowledge was administered over the telephone by reading items and response alternatives to 144 recent military enlistees who had completed the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Correlations, factor loadings, and administration time indicate that the procedure is a good measure of crystallized verbal…

To explore theoretical issues inspired by the Likert response format, 2 social insight scales were developed and administered to 391 Air Force recruits. Results demonstrate the applicability of the probabilistic response format to measure differences in nontraditional knowledge domains and the existence of a factor that may be interpreted as…