Generation speed in Raven's progressive matrices test

In this paper, we investigate the role of response fluency on a well-known intelligence test, Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) test. Findin g rules that govern the items is critical in solving this test. Finding the se rules is conceptualized as sampling rules from a (statistical) rule dist ribution until the correct one is attained. Response fluency is then seen a s generation speed, or the speed at which a person generates (samples) rule s from this distribution. We develop a test that isolates this speed of sam pling variable, and a method to check whether this variable was adequately isolated. The score on this test is then compared with performance on the A PM test. It is found that the speed at which people sample from such distri butions is an important variable in solving APM items.