General and Specific Mental Abilities

General and Specific Mental Abilities

by Dennis J. McFarland

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The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphasized the primacy of a general factor, while neuropsychology has emphasized specific abilities that are dissociable. This issue about the nature of human mental abilities is important for many practical concerns. Question…

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  • Full title :General and Specific Mental Abilities / Dennis J. McFarland.

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The history of testing mental abilities has seen the dominance of two contrasting approaches, psychometrics and neuropsychology. These two traditions have different theories and methodologies, but overlap considerably in the tests they use. Historically, psychometrics has emphasized the primacy of a general factor, while neuropsychology has emphasized specific abilities that are dissociable. This issue about the nature of human mental abilities is important for many practical concerns. Questions such as gender, ethnic, and age-related differences in mental abilities are relatively easy to addr.

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  • Publication Date:2020.

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  • Description:1 online resource (485 pages)

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  • ISBN:9781527550476, 1527550478
  • oclc:on1203718215

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Interdisciplinary studies Physiological & neuro-psychology, biops…

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Dennis J. McFarland

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