{{Short description|Simplest tasks used in intelligence testing}} An '''elementary cognitive task''' (ECT) is any of a range of basic tasks which require only a small number of mental processes and which have easily specified correct outcomes.<ref name="Carroll">Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies By John Bissell Carroll 1993 Cambridge University Press {{ISBN|0-521-38712-4}} p11</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Human intelligence|last=Hunt|first=Earl B.|authorlink=Earl B. Hunt|date=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521881623|location=Cambridge|pages=142|oclc=567165797}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The neuroscience of intelligence|last=Haier|first=Richard J.|authorlink=Richard J. Haier|isbn=9781107089778|location=New York, NY|pages=227|oclc=951742581|date = 2016-12-28}}</ref>
The term was proposed by John Bissell Carroll in 1980,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA086057|title=Individual Difference Relations in Psychometric and Experimental Cognitive Tasks|last=Carroll|first=John B.|publisher=Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina|year=1980|archive-date=2022-07-08|access-date=2019-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708084905/https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA086057|url-status=dead}}</ref> who posited that all test performance could be analyzed and broken down to building blocks called ECTs. Test batteries such as Microtox were developed based on this theory and have shown utility in the evaluation of test subjects under the influence of carbon monoxide or alcohol.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pIkLflMhJ8AC |title=Behavioral Measures of Neurotoxicity: Report of a Symposium |editor=Roger W. Russell |others=Pamela Ebert Flattau, Andrew MacPherson Pope |year=1990 |publisher=National Academies Press |isbn=0-309-04047-7}}</ref>
== See also ==
* Mental chronometry * Inspection time
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Psychological tests and scales Category:Psychometrics