It is well documented that training the rules employed in figural matrices tests enhances test performance. Previous studies only compare experimental conditions in which all or no rules were trained and therefore ignore the particular influence of knowledge about the easy and difficult rules. With the current study, we wanted to provide some first insights into this topic. Respondents were assigned to four groups that received training for no rules, only the easy rules, only the difficult rules or for all rules. The results show that a training only for the difficult rules was more effective than the other trainings. This applies also to performance in the easy rules that were actually not part of the training. A possible explanation for this finding is a facilitation of the solution process that is primarily driven by knowledge about the difficult rules. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that taking differences between the rules into account may provide a deeper understanding of the effects of trainings for figural matrices tests.

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图形矩阵测试中的测试准备：关注困难的规则

大量文献证明，训练图形矩阵测试中使用的规则可以提高测试性能。先前的研究仅比较了训练所有或没有规则的实验条件，因此忽略了有关简单规则和困难规则的知识的特殊影响。通过当前的研究，我们希望对该主题提供一些初步的见解。受访者被分为四个组，分别接受无规则，仅简单规则，仅困难规则或所有规则的培训。结果表明，仅针对困难规则的培训比其他培训更有效。这也适用于实际上不属于培训的简单规则中的表现。对于此发现的可能解释是对解决过程的简化，这主要是由对困难规则的了解所驱动的。总之，我们的结果表明，将规则之间的差异考虑在内可能会对图形矩阵测试的培训效果提供更深入的了解。