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The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability

By Arthur R. Jensen

Book information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
1998
ISBN
0275961036, 9780275961039
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26001118 bytes)
Series
Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
Edition
First Edition
Pages
664\660
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2014-02-25 08:14:56
Психологические дисциплины;Методология и методы пс

Description

Jensen provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science—general mental ability—labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman. The g factor is about individual differences in mental abilities. In factor analyses of any and every large and diverse collection of measures of mental abilities, however varied the content of knowledge and skills they call upon, g emerges as the largest, most general source of differences between individuals and between certain subpopulations.Jensen fully and clearly explains the psychometric, statistical, genetic, and physiological basis of g, as well as the major theoretical challenges to the concept. For decades a key construct in differential psychology, the g factor's significance for scholars and researchers in the brain sciences as well as education, sociology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, economics, and public policy is clearly evident in this, the most comprehensive treatment of g ever published.

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