G Factor The Science of Mental Ability

Name: G Factor The Science of Mental Ability
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ISBN: 9780275961039

ISBN-10: 0275961036

ISBN-13: 9780275961039

Edition: 1998

Authors: Arthur R. Jensen

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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…

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List price: $119.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 2/28/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 664
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Little History



The Discovery of g



The Trouble with "Intelligence"



Models and Characteristics of g



Challenges to g



Biological Correlates of g



The Heritability of g



Information Processing and g



The Practical Validity of g



Construct, Vehicles, and Measurements



Population Differences in g



Population Differences in g: Causal Hypotheses



Sex Differences in g



The g Nexus



Spearman's "Law of Diminishing Returns"



Method of Correlated Vectors



Multivariate Analyses of a Nexus


References


Name Index


Subject Index