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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2020. Vol. 13, no. 1, 122–137
doi:10.17759/exppsy.2020130109
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Intelligence, creativity, and ‘PLines’ computer game performance by middle school age students

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A.A. Margolis, L.S. Kuravsky, V.K. Voitov, E.V. Gavrilova, S.S. Ermakov, G.A. Petrova, E.A. Shepeleva, V.S. Yurkevich

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Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of the relations of psychometric parameters of intelligence and creativity of middle school age students with the efficiency of their problem solving in a computer game, a variant of the famous game “Lines”. The computer game performance was estimated in the final game score. The presence of a weak, but significant positive relationship between the final game score and the indicators of creativity, but not of intelligence, was shown. The obtained empirical data are discussed from the prospects of the use of a computer game as a special diagnostic tool for cognitive abilities, and those psychological variables that can be analyzed as relevant factors for high computer game performance.

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Keywords: intellect, creativity, efficiency of their problem solving, computer game “PLines”

Journal rubric: Psychology of Intelligence

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2020130109

For citation: Margolis A.A., Kuravsky L.S., Voitov V.K., Gavrilova E.V., Ermakov S.S., Petrova G.A., Shepeleva E.A., Yurkevich V.S. Intelligence, creativity, and ‘PLines’ computer game performance by middle school age students. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2020. Vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 122–137. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2020130109. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Arkadiy A. Margolis, PhD in Psychology, Rector, Professor, Chair of Pedagogical Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-0122, e-mail: margolisaa@mgppu.ru

Lev S. Kuravsky, Doctor of Engineering, professor, Dean of the Computer Science Faculty, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3375-8446, e-mail: l.s.kuravsky@gmail.com

Vladimir K. Voitov, PhD in Engineering, Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-3049, e-mail: vojtovvk@mgppu.ru

Evgeniya V. Gavrilova, PhD in Psychology, Research Fellow, Centre of Applied Researches in Psychology and Education, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0848-3839, e-mail: gavrilovaev@mgppu.ru

Sergey S. Ermakov, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory "Information Technologies for Psychological Diagnostics" Associate Professor of the Department of "Age Psychology named after Professor L.F.Obukhova" of the Faculty of "Psychology of Education", Associate Professor of the Department of "Applied Mathematics" of the Faculty of "Information Technology"., Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4330-2618, e-mail: ermakovss@mgppu.ru

Galina A. Petrova, PhD in Psychology, Junior Scientific Fellow, Giftedness Diagnosis Department, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, researcher at the laboratory of clinical psychology and psychotherapy of the Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4931-8728, e-mail: kharlashina-galina@yandex.ru

Elena A. Shepeleva, PhD in Psychology, Senior Research Fellow of the Sector "Center for Cognitive Research of the Digital Educational Environment" CIRCC, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9867-6524, e-mail: shepelevaea@mgppu.ru

Viktoriya S. Yurkevich, PhD in Psychology, Professor, Chair of Theoretical and Experimental Foundations of Social Psychology, Department of Social Psychology, Head of Resource Center for Giftedness, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-7586, e-mail: vinni-vi@mail.ru

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