Adults' Performance on Formal Operations: General Ability or Scientific Interest

1 February 1977

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills

Vol. 44 (1) , 249-250
https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1977.44.1.249

Abstract

Measures of performance on concrete and formal operations from 39 college students were inter-correlated with measures of fluid and verbal intelligence and of interest in physical science. Performance on concrete and formal operations correlated significantly with interest in physical science but did not correlate significantly with either of the measures of intelligence.

Keywords

ADULTS
COLLEGE
FLUID
INTELLIGENCE
FORMAL OPERATIONS
VERBAL
SCIENTIFIC
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
CORRELATE SIGNIFICANTLY

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