In order to simulate divided attention, while participants are estimating when the target reaches the middle of the screen, they are required to complete a pattern matching task.
During the test of abstract reasoning, a set of geometric figures with a missing pattern was presented to the children and they were asked to identify the missing item that completes a pattern from a group of almost identical alternatives.
In Raven's SPM, they were instructed to find a matching item to complete a pattern, while in the Figural Relations they had to mark the nonmatching item of a pattern of symbols.
The Matrices subtest measures the child's ability to solve new problems, perceive relationships and complete visual analogies without testing vocabulary or language skill (the child is asked to point to the picture that will complete a pattern).
The third round also requires you to complete a pattern chain stitches and double crochets.
Participants were administered 12 items selected from Set II, each of which required the participant to identify the answer option (out of eight provided options) that correctly completed a given pattern.
The psychometric tests were the Vocabulary sub-test, where patients had to define certain words; the Digit Span sub-test, where patients had to repeat numbers in forward and reverse sequence; and the Progressive Matrices test, where patients had to identify the missing element that completed a certain pattern.
Crosshatch pattern: Rub the wax onto the board on a diagonal, and then perpendicular to that diagonal, completing a crosshatch pattern.
As our understanding of the human brain advances, our conception of its capacities becomes ever more complex, and the ability to complete a mathematical pattern or unscramble an anagram becomes less the measurement of an important ability and more a curious predilection, like a fascination with stamps or a passion for the oboe.
The RPM raw score estimates reasoning by asking participants to determine the missing segment required to complete a larger pattern from a series of geometric arrangements that become progressively more difficult to solve [ 34].
