Browsing by Author "Kazi, Smaragda"
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Cognizance in cognitive development: A longitudinal study
Kazi, Smaragda; Kazali, Elena; Makris, Nikolaos; Spanoudis, George; Demetriou, Andreas (2019)This study explored longitudinally how cognizance mediates between executive and reasoning process from 4 to 10 years of age. Four-, 6-, and 8-years old children were tested twice by executive (inhibition, flexibility in ...
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Cycles in speed-working memory-G relations: Towards a developmental-differential theory of the mind
Demetriou, Andreas P.; Spanoudis,George C.; Shayer, Michael; Mouyi, Antigoni; Kazi, Smaragda; Platsidou, M. (2013)This article presents three studies, two of them longitudinal, which investigated the relations between age, processing speed, working memory (WM), and fluid intelligence (g f) from 4 to 16years of age. Structural equation ...
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Decomposing the influence of mental processes on academic performance
Demetriou, Andreas; Makris, Nikolaos; Tachmatzidis, Dimitrios; Kazi, Smaragda; Spanoudis, George (2019)
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Developmental Differentiation and Binding of Mental Processes with g through the Life-Span
Demetriou, Andreas P.; Spanoudis,George C.; Kazi, Smaragda; Mouyi, Antigoni; Mislav Stjepan Žebec; Kazali, Elena; Golino, Hudson; Bakracevic, Karin; Shayer, Michael (MDPI AG, 2017)Integration/differentiation of mental processes is major mechanism of development. Developmental theories ascribe intellectual development to it. In psychometric theory, Spearman’s law of diminishing returns postulates ...
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The developmental trinity of mind: Cognizance, executive control, and reasoning
Demetriou, Andreas; Makris, Nikolaos; Kazi, Smaragda; Spanoudis, George; Shayer, Michael (2018)This paper summarizes research on how cognizance, that is, awareness of mental processes, interacts with executive control and reasoning from childhood to adolescence. Central positions are that (a) cognizance changes ...
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Embedding cognizance in intellectual development
Spanoudis,George C.; Demetriou, Andreas P.; Kazi, Smaragda; Giorgala, K.; Zenonos, V. (2015)This study examined whether cognizance of cognitive processes (i.e., awareness of the perceptual and inferential origins of knowledge) mediates between basic processing efficiency functions (i.e., processing speed, attention ...
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The emerging self: the convergence of mind, personality and thinking styles
Demetriou, Andreas P.; Kazi, Smaragda; Georgiou, Stelios N. (1999)This paper aims to integrate research and theorizing about problem solving, self and personality into a comprehensive theory. With this purpose, the paper attempts to answer three questions: how do humans become aware of ...
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Mapping the Dimensions of General Intelligence: An Integrated Differential-Developmental Theory
Demetriou, Andreas; Makris, Nikolaos; Spanoudis, George; Kazi, Smaragda; Shayer, Michael; Kazali, Elena (2018)
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Mind-culture interactions: How writing molds mental fluidity in early development
Kazi, Smaragda; Demetriou, Andreas P.; Spanoudis,George C.; Zhang, X. K.; Wang, Y. (2012)This study investigated intellectual development in 4-7. years old Greek and Chinese children. They were examined on speeded performance, working memory, reasoning, and self-awareness tasks in order to investigate possible ...
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Mind-Personality Relations from Childhood to Adolescence
Demetriou, Andreas; Spanoudis, George Charilaos; Zebec, Mislav; Andreou, Maria; Golino, Hudson; Kazi, Smaragda (2018)We present three studies which investigated the relations between cognition and personality from 7 to 20 years of age. The first investigated developmental relations between three reasoning domains (inductive, deductive, ...
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Predicting school performance from cognitive ability, self-representation, and personality from primary school to senior high school
Demetriou, Andreas; Kazi, Smaragda; Spanoudis, George; Makris, Nikolaos (2019)