Elsewhere, we have proposed that g, in large part, reflects the control of current behaviour by a flexible internal model of relevant facts, rules and task requirements (Duncan, 2001; Duncan et al., 2008; cf. the 'global workspace' of Dehaene et al., 1998, 2003).
So while the explicitly determined rules and tasks might say nothing about being secretive or "sticking by one's mates come what may" or having a hostile or negative attitude to particular social groups, these attitudes and practices might in fact be pervasive; they might be part of the culture.
Chances are, those rules and tasks are there to help you and keep you safe.
As in the first experiment, problems were presented in a predefined pseudorandomized sequence that was designed to balance rule and task familiarity across the 4 reasoning conditions.
Even before hierarchy, Weber (1948) introduced rules, knowledge, and task specialization of work as fundamental: "The management of the office follows general rules, which are more or less stable, more or less exhaustive, and which can be learned.
The former include general rules and procedures, task distribution for clinical and administrative staff and monitoring of task performance; the latter include induction courses, peer pressure mechanisms and training/personal development opportunities.
The task-oriented leadership behaviour of formalization, defined as specifying work procedures and rules and monitoring tasks, showed insignificant relationships with all of the four outcomes.
In report cards, her teachers describe her as "very focused," someone who follows the rules and stays on task.
Adolescents need rules and tutoring, a task for parents, school boards, teachers, and student counselors [ 9, 14].
Our concepts propose design principles for networks predicting how behavior and task rules are represented in real neural circuits and open new avenues for the analyses of neural data.
Her research focuses on processes of cognitive control, with a particular focus on task switching and task rules; context-sensitive adjustment of cognitive control; conflicts as aversive signals for control adaptations; and affective and motivational modulation of cognitive control.
