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Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies

By John B. Carroll

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
9780521387125, 9780521382755, 9780511571312, 0521387124, 0521382750, 0511571313
LCC
BF311 .C288 1993
Open Library ID
OL1710559M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4532534 bytes)
Edition
1St Edition
Pages
819\824
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This long awaited work surveys and summarizes the results of more than seventy years of investigation, by factor analysis, of a variety of cognitive abilities, with particular attention to language, thinking, memory, visual and auditory perception, creativity and the production of ideas, and the speed and accuracy of mental processing. The author describes his detailed findings resulting from reanalysis of more than 460 data sets from the factor-analytic literature, followed by a presentation of a hierarchical, three-stratum theory of cognitive ability and its implications for further research. A set of three computer disks (IBM 3-1/2" 1.4 megabytes, ASCII format) containing the numerical data sets and Dr. Carroll's statistical results is also available. Representing over 4 megabytes of data or roughly 2000 printed pages the disks are major resources for the interested researcher.

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