The test measures inductive reasoning, the ability to identify patterns and infer principles and rules.
They test "inductive reasoning, measuring the ability to identify patterns and infer principles and rules", say the researchers in their paper in the British Medical Journal.
18 It tests inductive reasoning, measuring the ability to identify patterns and infer principles and rules.
The focus of the reasoning training was on inductive reasoning, especially the ability to solve problems that followed a serial pattern and were manifest in executive functioning.
Various cognitive interventions have been successful at reversing age-related decrements in the cognitive components of inductive reasoning and spatial ability over 7 years, [ 42] improving the IADL task of managing medications, [ 47] and improving short-term memory performance in patients with Alzheimer's disease [ 48].
"Crystallized intelligence," by contrast, generally refers to skills that are acquired through experience and education, like verbal ability, inductive reasoning and judgment.
A number of the cognitive tasks were drawn from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IIIUK (WAIS-III, 1998): Matrix Reasoning (assesses nonverbal inductive reasoning), Block Design (assesses spatial and constructional abilities), Digit Symbol Coding and Symbol Search (which measure information processing speed) and Letter-number Sequencing and Backward Digit Span (which assess working memory).
Many aspects of problem solving involve inductive reasoning, or induction.
One of the most important skills I learned as a concentrator was the ability to utilize inductive reasoning in framing arguments.
This situation is in marked contrast not only with deductive reasoning, but also with elementary forms of inductive reasoning, such as induction by enumeration.
Fluid cognitive ability was assessed through the cognitive domains of processing speed, inductive reasoning, and working, prospective and long-term memories, and crystallised cognitive ability through the verbal ability domain.
