Relationships Among Selected Measures of Cognitive Styles, Abilities, and Aptitudes

Abstract

Measures of cognitive styles, abilities, and aptitudes for a sample of 166 graduates of Basic Electricity and Electronics School were analyzed to determine the magnitude and nature of their relationships. Canonical analyses established that measures of cognitive styles were significantly related to measures of aptitudes and of abilities, but their common variance was not large enough to be practical value. Measures of aptitudes were significantly related to measures of abilities, and the two sets of measures do have a considerable amount of shared variance. When the various measures were factor analyzed, three significant factors were extracted--which appeared to reflect measures of technical aptitude, verbal ability, and problem-solving mode. These factors accounted for much of the variability among the various measures of cognitive characteristics. Thus, it was concluded that cognitive styles are relatively independent of abilities and aptitudes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA090729

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  • David B. Landis
  • Pat-anthony Federico

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Naval Training
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

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  • Education

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  • Microelectronics