Table 3.
Standardized Factor Solution for the Basic Ability and Everyday Cognition Factors (N = 130): Factor Loading Matrix (Lambda)
| Test | Factors |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Inductive Reasoning | Basic Knowledge | Basic Declarative Memory | ECB | Solution Fluency | Solution Quality | Unique variance | |
| Letter Sets | .82 | .33 | |||||
| Number Series | .66 | .57 | |||||
| Verbal Meaning 1 | .93 | .13 | |||||
| Verbal Meaning 2 | .95 | .10 | |||||
| HVLT List 1 | .79 | .38 | |||||
| HVLT List 2 | .94 | .11 | |||||
| HVLT List 3 | .87 | .25 | |||||
| ECB Inductive Reasoning test | .89 | .21 | |||||
| ECB Knowledge test | .75 | .43 | |||||
| ECB Declarative Memory test | .81 | .34 | |||||
| Rater 1 solution fluency score | .98 | .04 | |||||
| Rater 2 solution fluency score | .95 | .09 | |||||
| Rater 3 solution fluency score | 1.00 | — | |||||
| Expert 1 solution quality score | .77 | .41 | |||||
| Expert 2 solution quality score | .89 | .21 | |||||
| Expert 3 solution quality score | .62 | .61 | |||||
| Expert 4 solution quality score | .63 | .60 | |||||
| Expert 5 solution quality score | .66 | .56 | |||||
| Expert 6 solution quality score | .80 | .35 | |||||
Note: The unique variance for Rater 3 was fixed to 0. ECB = Everyday Cognition Battery. HVLT = Hopkins Verbal Learning Test.