Table 1.
Composition of the lists as a function of the experimental conditions.
Table 2.
Means and (standard deviations in parentheses) of the relevant variablesa.
Table 3.
Correlations among executive functioning and relational verbal reasoning variables with metaphor interpretation for the three age groups.
Table 4.
Communality analysis, 11-year-olds.
Table 5.
Communality analysis, 15-year-olds.
Table 6.
Communality analysis, young adults.
Table 7.
Correlations among executive functioning and relational verbal reasoning variables with metaphor interpretation for less efficient and more efficient groups.
Table 8.
Less efficient metaphor processors.