The Raven Progressive Matrices: A Review of National Norming Studies and Ethnic and Socioeconomic Variation Within the United States

Raven, John

doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1989.tb00314.x

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“…Study 2 was designed to do this. (Raven, 1989); and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale (SILS; Zachary, 1986), which is a stand-alone intelligence test comprised of two subscales; Vocabulary, which tests crystallized intelligence; and Abstraction, which tests fluid intelligence. Also, we examined academic performance via self-reported GPA and SAT scores.…”

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A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

Sefcek

Figueredo

2010

Biodemography and Social Biology

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A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

Sefcek

Figueredo

2010

Biodemography and Social Biology

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“…Trail-Making Tests A and B were used to assess executive abilities (28). Raven's colored progressive matrices (Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX, USA) were used to measure visual reasoning and problem solving, an assessment of intellectual development (29). The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), consisting of 20 questions translated into Korean, was used to evaluate depressive mood and affect during the past week (30).…”

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Protein kinase C activity and the relations between blood lead and neurobehavioral function in lead workers.

Hwang

Lee

Bressler

et al. 2002

Environ Health Perspect

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At picomolar concentrations, lead activates protein kinase C (PKC). This activation has been implicated in the neurotoxicity of lead. No prior study has evaluated the association of PKC activity with neurobehavioral function in humans. The purpose of this study was to determine whether PKC activity is associated with neurobehavioral function or modifies the relationship between blood lead levels and neurobehavioral test scores. In this cross-sectional study of 212 current lead workers in the Republic of Korea, we assessed blood lead levels, neurobehavioral test scores, and PKC activity. PKC activity was determined by measuring the levels of phosphorylation of three erythrocyte membrane proteins (spectrin and the 52-kDa and 48-kDa subunits of band 4.9), using an in vitro back-phosphorylation assay. When linear regression was used to control for confounding variables, blood lead was a significant predictor of decrements in performance on tests of psychomotor function, manual dexterity, and executive ability. In linear regression models, back-phosphorylation levels were not associated with neurobehavioral test scores, but when dichotomized at the median, back-phosphorylation levels modified the relationship between blood lead and test scores. For spectrin and the 52-kDa and 48-kDa subunits of band 4.9, 5, 2, and 5 of 14 interaction terms, respectively, had associated p-values less than 0.10, all with positive signs, indicating that blood lead was associated with worse test scores only in subjects with lower back-phosphorylation levels. These data indicate that blood lead levels are associated with decrements in neurobehavioral test scores, mainly in the domains of manual dexterity and psychomotor function, but only in subjects with lower in vitro back-phosphorylation levels, which is equivalent to higher in vivo PKC activity. We hypothesize that subjects with higher PKC activity in the presence of lead may be more susceptible to the health effects of lead.

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“…The APM and SPM are nonverbal tests designed to evaluate the reasoning ability of adults and adolescents (Raven, 1989). The difference between the APM and the SPM is that the former evaluates subjects with above-average intelligence.…”

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Believe Me, You are (Not) that Bad

Jimenez

2016

SSRN Journal

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This paper studies the effect of incentive schemes incorporating status classes on workers' performance. I focus on performance comparisons between similarly skilled workers that belong to different status classes. A theoretical framework predicts that, under certain conditions, low ability workers attain high performance when they are assigned to a high rather than a low status class, and that high ability workers achieve high performance irrespective of the received status. These predictions are tested in a laboratory setting, where subjects are randomly assigned to a high status or a low status condition and constant performance feedback is provided. The experimental data support both predictions: low ability subjects assigned to the high status condition outperform their low status counterparts by 0.53 standard deviations in a cognitively challenging task, and high ability subjects display high performance outcomes in both status classes. Moreover, I explore the subjects' beliefs about performance as a mechanism to explain these results. I find that low ability subjects assigned to the high status exhibit performance targets that were as high as those elicited by high ability participants. This suggests that these workers used status to believe that they were good performers, and performed accordingly.JEL Classification : D03, C91, D84, M54, Z13

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The Raven Progressive Matrices: A Review of National Norming Studies and Ethnic and Socioeconomic Variation Within the United States

Cited by 131 publications

References 24 publications

A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

A Life-History Model of Human Fitness Indicators

Protein kinase C activity and the relations between blood lead and neurobehavioral function in lead workers.

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