Broad Abilities 101
The abbreviation for this ability is Gs
What is Processing Speed?
Students who have difficulty with reading comprehension and vocabulary may have difficulty in this CHC ability.
What is Comprehension Knowledge or Gc?
The ability to attend to, register, and immediately recall (after only one presentation) temporally ordered elements and then reproduce the series of elements in the correct order.
What is Memory Span or Ms?
In the standard battery, Test 7 (Visualization) measures this CHC factor
What is Visual Processing or Gv
This broad ability is the most similar to "g" or general intelligence
What is Fluid Reasoning? or What is Gf?
Students who have difficulty recalling directions may have a problem with ________.
What is short-term working memory or Gsm?
This narrow ability involves the development and understanding of words, sentences, and paragraphs in spoken native language skills
What is Language Development or LD?
In the standard battery, Test 5 (Phonological Processing), measures this CHC factor
What is Auditory Processing or Ga?
This broad ability is dependent on the knowledge that is gained from Gf
What is Comprehension Knowledge or Gc?
Students who have difficulty associating letters with sounds may have low ______.
What is Associative Memory or Long-term Storage and Retrieval (Glr)?
General sequential reasoning often starts with stated assertions while _______ discovers the underlying characteristic that underlies the specific problem
What is Induction?
In the standard battery, test 4 (letter-pattern matching) measures this CHC factor.
What is cognitive processing speed or Gs?
The extent an individual can cognitively control the perception of auditory information.
What is Auditory Processing or Ga?
Students who have difficulty completing shape sorting puzzles may have difficulty with _________.
What is visual processing or Gv or Visualization
Ability to ____, ______, and be sensitive to nuances in _______ information (speech sounds) in short-term memory.
What is code, process, and phonemic
In the standard battery, tests 1-7 collectively measure this cognitive composite
What is general intellectual ability or GIA?
This broad ability involves the ability to recall one part of a previously learned but unrelated pair of items. It also involves the ability to note, retain, and recall information where there is meaningful relation.
What is long-term storage and retrieval or Glr?
Students who have difficulty completing easy tasks when attention and concentration is required may have difficulty in ________.
What is processing speed or Gs?
Ability to temporarily store and perform a set of _______ operations on information that requires ______ attention within the limited capacity resources of ______ term memory
What is cognitive, divided, short
This cognitive composite includes the same tests that measure for fluid reasoning and comprehension knowledge
What is Gf-Gc Composite?