What Is Intelligence? 1:What argues for and against considering intelligence asone general mental ability? Factor analysisis a statistical procedure that has revealed some underlying commonalities in different mental abilities. Spearman named this common factor the g factor. Thurstone KENGLIGI VA YUNALISHIGA KO'RA TALANT
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argued against defining intelligence so narrowly as just one score. He identified seven different clusters of mental abilities. Yet there remained a tendency for high scorers in one of his clusters to score high in other clusters as well. Our gscores seem most predictive in novel situations and do not much