UID:
almahu_9947367826102882
Format:
1 online resource (717 pages)
ISBN:
1-281-78845-7
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9786611788452
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0-08-086689-1
Series Statement:
Advances in psychology ; 35
Content:
With essentially the same basis as the 1971 Abilities, Their Structure, Growth and Action, this new volume reflects the developments of subsequent years.
Note:
Rev. ed. of: Abilities. 1971.
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Front Cover; Intelligence: Its Structure, Growth and Action; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Tables and Figures; Chapter One: The Scientific Goals of Ability Research; 1. The importance of intelligence; 2. A brief history of ideas about intelligence; 3. The testing age begins; 4. The basic issue of the structure and definition of abilities; Chapter Two: Principles and Methods in Investigating General Intelligence; 1. The nature of verbal definitions of intelligence; 2. Is intelligence unitary? Surface and source traits
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3. Behavior structure investigation: from correlation to factor analysis; 4. The difference between the scientist's and the mathematician's factor model: rotational resolution; 5. Early factor findings: the two-factor (g and s) hierarchical theory; 6. A first glimpse of the properties of ""general mental capacity""; Chapter Three: The Nature of Primary Abilities; 1. From the general ability factor to multiple factor analysis; 2. Thurstone demonstrates the existence of primary abilities; 3. A roll call of presently recognized primary abilities
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4. Description of some representative primary ability patterns; 5. Fluency, memory, and perception primaries possibly tied to personality; 6. Methods needed to clarify the primary ability field; Chapter Four: Principles in Drawing the Map of Abilities; 1. What good is a taxonomy?; 2. A critique and further exploration of some proposed classificatory principles; 3. What categories are really needed in a theoretical classification of abilities?; 4. The ADAC or theoretical ""ability dimension analysis chart""
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5. Constructing tests to fit a schema versus creating a taxonomy to fit discovered abilities; Chapter Five: The Discovery of Fluid and Crystallized General Intelligence; 1. The birth of the ""two intelligences"" concept; 2. The meaning of factor strata; 3. Hyperplanes: the technical requirement for unambiguous factor resolution; 4. The emergence of the second-stratum fluid and crystallized ability patterns; 5. gf and gc: their differences from each other and from previous concepts; Chapter Six: Higher Stratum Ability Structure and the ""Investment Theory"" of Intelligence
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1. What comes after the pyramids?; 2. The interpretation of the main second-stratum broad factors; 3. What can future research add to structural concepts at the second stratum?; 4. The new perspective from the third stratum; 5. Causal sequences and factor analysis: the investment theory; 6. Problems of the autonomy and the Protean inconstancy of gc; Chapter Seven: The Natural History of Ability: Distribution and Relation to Sex and Age; 1. On the general ability equality of men and women; 2. On the more specific ability differences and their subtle personality associations; 3. Intelligence changes in the growth period and the problem of intelligence units and distribution
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-87922-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
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