The significance of discrepancies between the verbal and non-verbal intelligence scores of a group of first year university students
✍ Scribed by Johannes A. Roux; Roelof P. Merwe
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 573 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0653
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✦ Synopsis
The object of the study was to investigate the significance of the differences between verbal and non-verbal scores on the New South African Group Intelligence Test (NSAGT).
The experimental subjects were first year university students. They were subdivided into three groups: one group whose non-verbal scores were higher than their verbal scores, a second group whose verbal scores were higher than their nonverbal scores and a third group, acting as a control group, whose verbal and nonverbal scores were approximately equal.
The three groups were compared with regard to such features as visual and auditory acuity, personal adjustment and academic achievement. The raw data were arranged in three-dimensional contingency tables and interrelationships between variables were computed by means of the G 2 test.
A positive correlation was found between temperamental personality features and high non-verbal scores on the NSAGT.