Generation speed in Raven's Progressive Matrices Test

Item does not contain fulltextIn this paper, we investigate the role of response fluency on a well-known intelligence test, Raven's (1962) Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) test. Critical in solving this test is finding rules that govern the items. Response fluency is conceptualized as generation speed or the speed at which a person generates (samples) rules from some (statistical) rule distribution. We claim that a person's ability to induce relations in the APM test may be translated as the speed at which this person samples rules (candidate relations) from this distribution. This is examined by administering and comparing two types of tasks, first APM itself, and second, a homemade task which is intended to measure the speed component only. It is found that rule sampling distributions do not differ greatly between persons, but that the speed at which people sample from such distributions is an important variable in solving APM items