Cognition and Componential Analysis: God's Truth or Hocus'Pocus?

Cognitive Control: Componential or Emergent?

The past 25 years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance of cognitive control in the regulation of complex behavior. It now sits alongside attention, memory, language, and thinking as a distinct domain within cognitive psychology. At the same time it permeates each of these sibling domains. This introduction reviews recent work on cognitive control in an attempt to provide a c...

Numerical Cognition On the Convergence of Componential and Psychometric Models

The relationship between the elementary operations underlying the processing of numerical information and performance on psychometrically derived ability measures defining the Numerical Facility, Perceptual Speed, General Reasoning, and Memory Span factors was examined for a sample of 112 Air Force recruits. The process variables were derived based on a componential model for arithmetic and an ...

Cognitive Control : Componential or Emergent ? Richard

The past twenty-five years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance of cognitive control in the regulation of complex behavior. It now sits alongside attention, memory, language and thinking as a distinct domain within cognitive psychology. At the same time it permeates each of these sibling domains. This paper reviews recent work on cognitive control in an attempt to provide a ...

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data.

We examine the advantages and disadvantages of 2 types of analyses used in interpersonal perception studies: componential and noncomponential. Componential analysis of interpersonal perception data (Kenny, 1994) partitions a judgment into components and then estimates the variances of and the correlations between these components. A noncomponential analysis uses raw scores to analyze interperso...