The Relationship Between Curiosity and Cognitive Ability in Third- and Fifth-Grade Children

Alberti, Eric T.; Witryol, Sam L.

doi:10.1080/00221325.1994.9914767

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“…Naylor () found trait curiosity to be slightly correlated with verbal ability, but not with numerical ability. Positive correlations between fluid intelligence have also been reported for peer ratings of curiosity (Maw & Maw, ) and for samples with children (Alberti & Witryol, ). It can be hypothesized that the relationship between the two variables is due to a direct influence of fluid intelligence on the development of curiosity (Moutafi, Furnham, & Crump, ).…”

Section: Nomological Networkmentioning

confidence: 77%

Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance

Mussel

2012

J Organ Behavior

116

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Summary The present paper provides a conceptual and empirical examination regarding the relevance of the construct curiosity for work‐related outcomes. On the basis of a review and integration of the literature regarding the construct itself, the construct is conceptually linked with performance in the work context. In line with a confirmatory research strategy, the sample of the present study (N = 320) has requirements which reflect this conceptual link. Results from a concurrent validation study confirmed the hypothesis regarding the significance of curiosity for job performance (r = .34). Furthermore, incremental validity of curiosity above 12 cognitive and non‐cognitive predictors for job performance suggests that curiosity captures variance in the criterion that is not explained by predictors traditionally used in organizational psychology. It is concluded that curiosity is an important variable for the prediction and explanation of work‐related behavior. Furthermore, given the dramatic changes in the world of work, the importance is likely to rise, rather than to decline, which has important implications for organizational theories and applied purposes, such as personnel selection. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Nomological Networkmentioning

confidence: 77%

Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance

Mussel

2012

J Organ Behavior

116

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“…More sociable and more active children are more likely to be infected (Kvalsvig & Becker 1988). It is possible that cognitive function is also linked with risk of exposure (for example there is a moderate relationship between curiosity and cognitive function (Alberti & Witryol 1994)) and that this positive correlation could cancel out the negative relationship between infection level and cognitive function at low levels of infection.…”

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confidence: 99%

Heavy schistosomiasis associated with poor short‐term memory and slower reaction times in Tanzanian schoolchildren

Jukes

Nokes²,

Alcock³

et al. 2002

Tropical Med Int Health

143

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Cross-sectional studies of the relationship between helminth infection and cognitive function can be informative in ways that treatment studies cannot. However, interpretation of results of many previous studies has been complicated by the failure to control for many potentially confounding variables. We gave Tanzanian schoolchildren aged 9-14 a battery of 11 cognitive and three educational tests and assessed their level of helminth infection. We also took measurements of an extensive range of potentially confounding or mediating factors such as socioeconomic and educational factors, anthropometric and other biomedical measures. A total of 272 children were moderately or heavily infected with Schistosoma haematobium, hookworm or both helminth species and 117 were uninfected with either species. Multiple regression analyses, controlling for all confounding and mediating variables, revealed that children with a heavy S. haematobium infection had significantly lower scores than uninfected children on two tests of verbal short-term memory and two reaction time tasks. In one of these tests the effect was greatest for children with poor nutritional status. There was no association between infection and educational achievement, nor between moderate infection with either species of helminth and performance on the cognitive tests. We conclude that children with heavy worm burdens and poor nutritional status are most likely to suffer cognitive impairment, and the domains of verbal short-term memory and speed of information processing are those most likely to be affected.

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Section: Preference For Complexity/unknown As Measure Of Curiositymentioning

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“…In his studies, Witryol et al measured children's choice of both novelty and complexity under different levels of familiarity (Wentworth & Witryol, 1990;Cahill-Solis & Witryol, 1994;Alberti & Witryol, 1994). In a study investigating the relationship between curiosity and cognitive ability, Alberti and Witryol (1994) administered a behavioral measure of curiosity to 3 rd and 5 th grade children and collected data on their cognitive ability. Curiosity was measured using a binary choice preference test of stimuli between a novel option and a familiar option, with the added feature that there were four different levels of familiarity --from high familiarity to high novelty --induced by using four different familiarization sequences .…”

Section: Preference For Complexity/unknown As Measure Of Curiositymentioning

confidence: 99%

Children’s scientific curiosity: In search of an operational definition of an elusive concept

Jirout

Klahr

2012

Developmental Review

261

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The Relationship Between Curiosity and Cognitive Ability in Third- and Fifth-Grade Children

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance

Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance

Heavy schistosomiasis associated with poor short‐term memory and slower reaction times in Tanzanian schoolchildren

Children’s scientific curiosity: In search of an operational definition of an elusive concept

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