Assessed the metacognitive processes of self-confidence and self-evaluation in 339 Australian college students. Analyses of overall performance show that an "easy-difficult" distinction provides a reasonable account of the calibration data that show over- and underconfidence. Analyses also confirm the presence of a strong self-confidence…

The Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of 86 left-handed undergraduates were examined as a function of familial sinistrality, strength of left-handedness, and sex. An interaction was found between familial sinistrality and strength of handedness in terms of aptitude. (Author/BS)

The relations between examinee background characteristics and performance on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test were studied through structural equation modeling for 3,145 examinees. Findings regarding examinee characteristics underscore the importance of socioeconomic status and intervening process variables in research on group…

The verbal overshadowing paradigm was used with 167 undergraduates to determine whether performance across all items on Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices was dependent on the same cognitive processes. Results clearly indicated that a subset of items was dependent on visuospatial processes, while another subset required verbal-analytic…

A measurement and psychometric examination of cognitive tasks was carried out with 195 undergraduates, investigating stability of latencies and number correct scores over a 2-week period and relations with standardized test and ability measure scores. Results are discussed in terms of the need for evaluating cognitive task measurement properties.…