A cognitive approach to intelligence: Attention, coding and planning.

Reviews the progress of the planning-attention-simultaneous-successive (PASS) theory, described by J. P. Dass (1972, 1973). The theory describes behavior as the result of the interdependent functioning of planning, attention (arousal), and coding (either simultaneous or successive) systems. Most research conducted to 1979 concerned simultaneous and successive coding in working memory and relied on principle components analyses. Research since 1980 has examined the roles of arousal, especially in attention, and of the planning system; experimental studies and confirmatory analyses have also been conducted. Relationships of PASS theory to other theories and approaches are considered. Three areas of application are examined: understanding achievement skills and learning problems, theory-based assessment of cognitive processes, and instructional design. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)