Intelligence : Its Structure, Growth and Action

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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. 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 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