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Development of Intelligence

A Multivariate View

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At this date in psychological science, there should be no doubt that intelligence is what Binet thought it to be: a multivariate affair. From a multitude of factor-analytic investigations, intelligence has been demonstrated to be multidimensional. Through such studies of individual differences, a great number of distinguishable intellectual functions have been delineated, as described by their positions in the writer’s structure-of-intellect (SI) model (Guilford, 1967; Guilford & Hoepfner, 1971).

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    J. P. Guilford

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  1. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

    Ina Č. Užgiris

  2. York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

    Fredric Weizmann

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Guilford, J.P. (1977). Development of Intelligence. In: Užgiris, I.Č., Weizmann, F. (eds) The Structuring of Experience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8786-6_3

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