The stability of cognitive abilities: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive abilities, including general intelligence and domain-specific abilities such as fluid reasoning, comprehension knowledge, working memory capacity, and processing speed, are regarded as some of the most stable psychological traits, yet there exist no large-scale systematic efforts to document the specific patterns by which their rank-order stability changes over age and time interval, or how their stability differs across abilities, tests, and populations. Determining the conditions under which cognitive abilities exhibit high or low degrees of stability is critical not just to theory development but to applied contexts in which cognitive assessments guide decisions regarding treatment and intervention decisions with lasting consequences for individuals. In order to supplement thi

SUBMITTER: Breit M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626988 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature