The Scientific Study of General Intelligence
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: June 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780080437934
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Intelligence; The self, ego, identity, personality; Reference; Intellect; Psychology; Assessment, Testing & Measurement; Cognitive Psychology; Mental Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / Personality; General factor (Psychology)
First sentence: As I proposed in my volume Human Cognitive Abilities (Carroll 1993), cognitive abilities may be assumed to exist at three principal levels or strata: a first, lower-order stratum comprising some 50 to 60 or more narrow abilities that are linearly independent of each other (that is, possibly inter-correlated but with clearly separated vectors in the factorial space); a second stratum comprising approximately 8 to 10 or more broad abilities, also linearly independent of each other; and a third still higher stratum containing only a single, general intellectual ability commonly termed g.