The Frequency Accrual Speed Test (FAST): Psychometric intelligence and personality correlates

Performance on a putative psychophysical measure of information processing related to intelligence (Vickers' 1995 Frequency Accrual Speed Test, FAST) was assessed in relation to two psychometric measures of intelligence (Rave n's Advanced Progressive Matrices and the Mill Hill vocabulary test). Parti cipants (N=57) completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Revised (E PQ-R), and performed the FAST task under either low (70 dB) or high (90 dB) levels of white noise. FAST correlated with Raven's (r = 0.56) and Mill Hi ll (r = 0.28), as expected FAST total scores were not affected by personali ty or personality-by-noise interactions However a measure of consistency of FAST performance (i.e. the standard deviation) was correlated negatively w ith total FAST scores (r = -0.37) and positively with (EPQ-R) extraversion (r = 0.34). The results are discussed in terms of the validity of the FAST to explicate the information processing variables in psychometric intellige nce. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sorts, Ltd.