TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wang, Tengfei
A1  - Li, Chenyu
A1  - Wei, Wei
A1  - Schweizer, Karl
T1  - An investigation on how inhibition in cognitive processing contributes to fluid reasoning
T2  - Advances in cognitive psychology
N2  - This article reports an investigation of how inhibition contributes to fluid reasoning when it is decomposed into the reasoning ability, item-position, and speed components to control for possible method effects. Working memory was also taken into consideration. A sample of 223 university students completed a fluid reasoning scale, two tasks tapping prepotent response inhibition, and two working memory tasks. Fixed-links modeling was used to separate the effect of reasoning ability from the effects of item-position and speed. The goodness-of-fit results confirmed the necessity to consider the reasoning ability, item-position, and speed components simultaneously. Prepotent response inhibition was only associated with reasoning ability. This association disappeared when working memory served as a mediator. Taken together, these results reflect the inhomogeneity of what is tapped by the fluid reasoning scale on one hand and, on the other, suggest inhibition as an important component of working memory.
KW  - fixed-links modeling
KW  - fluid reasoning
KW  - prepotent response inhibition
KW  - working memory
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54762
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-547623
SN  - 1895-1171
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SP  - 176
EP  - 185
PB  - University of Economics and Human Sciences
CY  - Warsaw
ER  -