Projects / Programmes
Intelligence, mental speed, and personality traits
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.09.00 |
Social sciences |
Psychology |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S260 |
Social sciences |
Psychology |
intelligence, speed of information processing, the ‘Big Five Factor’ model of personality, the BIS model of intelligence, correlation, causal relations, causal modelling, LISREL
Researchers (3)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
01294 |
PhD Klas Matija Brenk |
Psychology |
Researcher |
1998 - 1999 |
160 |
| 2. |
09182 |
PhD Valentin Bucik |
Psychology |
Head |
1998 - 1999 |
654 |
| 3. |
03901 |
PhD Ludvik Horvat |
Psychology |
Researcher |
1998 - 1999 |
300 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The project is trying to investigate the relationship between particular personality traits, their neurophysiological correlates and the speed and efficiency of the information-processing as one of the key determinants of intelligence. The personality is a hierarchical model of traits, based on the fundamental factors, which constitute the higher-order constructs, as defined in the ‘Big Five’ model of personality. Intelligence is a basic ability to process information fast and effectively. In psychometric testing this ability is combined to continuance and error-checking. In our study this relationship is examined in a broader sense, regarding the hierarchical structure of psychometric intelligence (with ‘g’ on its apex). We are trying to combine two scientific disciplines of psychology: psychometric (correlational) and experimental (causal). The examination of the more specific and fundamental relations is trying to surpass the difficulties in the personality-intelligence studies in the past, where low correlation between concepts was the outcome of too broad and general (mostly correlational) approach. Therefore, basic goals of our study are, first, to examine the relationship between some fundamental personality traits, for which we suspect that they are connected to the properties of the nervous system, and with the basic determinants of intelligence, especially mental speed, and second, to check the relationship between the structure of personality as being measured by psychometric instruments and the structure of intelligence, assessed by the classical tests of intelligence.
