Factorial equations for tests of attention

Psychometrika - Tập 8 - Trang 19-35 - 1943
John Richard Wittenborn1
1Yale University, USA

Tóm tắt

Tests designed to measure what was conceived to be attention were found by factor analysis to involve a factor which is independent of the factors of rote memory, visual-space, number, or perception. To a large extent, at least, this attention factor is independent of content and of mode of presentation of test material. The tests in which the variance is mainly dependent upon this factor are those involving a high degree of sustained or relatively continuous mental effort.

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