Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A Componential Interpretation of the General Factor in Human Intelligence

  • Chapter
A Model for Intelligence

Abstract

Ever since Spearman’s (1904,1927) proposal of a general factor permeating all aspects of intelligent behavior, theorists of intelligence have busied themselves trying either to prove or disprove the existence in the mind of Spearman’s “g”. No doubt this popular pursuit will continue, if only because it provides a way of filling time for those who have had trouble finding other pursuits that strike their fancy.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Achenbach TM (1970) The children’s associative responding test: a possible alternative to group IQ tests. J Educ Psychol 61: 340–348

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Achenbach TM (1971) The children’s associative responding test: a two-year followup. Dev Psychol 5: 477–483

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Butterfleld EC, Belmont JM (1977) Assessing and improving the executive cognitive functions of mentally retarded people. In: Bialer I, Sternlicht M (eds) Psychological issues in mental retardation. Psychological Dimensions, New York, pp 277–318

    Google Scholar 

  • Campione JC, Brown AL (1979) Toward a theory of intelligence: contributions from research with retarded children. In: Sternberg RJ, Detterman DK(eds)Human intelligence:perspectives on its theory and measurement. Ablex,Norwood NJ,pp 139–164

    Google Scholar 

  • Carroll JB (1976) Psychometric tests as cognitive tasks: a new “structure of intellect.” In: Resnick LB (ed) The nature of intelligence.Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 27–56

    Google Scholar 

  • Carroll JB (1980) Individual difference relations in psychometric and experimental cognitive tasks. NR 150-406 ONR technical report: final report. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC

    Google Scholar 

  • Cattell RB (1971) Abilities: their structure,growth, and action. Houghton Mifflin, Boston

    Google Scholar 

  • Cattell RB, Cattell AKS (1963) Test of g: culture fair, scale 3. Institute for Personality and Ability Testing, Champaign IL

    Google Scholar 

  • Egan DE (1976) Accuracy and latency scores as measures of spatial information processing. Research report 1224. Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories, Pensacola

    Google Scholar 

  • Evans TG (1968) A program for the solution of geometric-analogy intelligence test questions. In: Minsky M (ed) Semantic information processing. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. pp 271–353

    Google Scholar 

  • Eysenck HJ (1979) The structure and measurement of intelligence. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Glaser R (1967) Some implications of previous work on learning and individual differences. In: Gagné RM (ed) Learning and individual differences. Merrill, Columbus

    Google Scholar 

  • Greeno JB (1978) Natures of problem-solving abilities. In: Estes WK (ed) Handbook of learning and cognitive processes, vol 5. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 239–270

    Google Scholar 

  • Guilford JP (1971) The nature of human intelligence. McGraw-Hill, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Guildord JP, Hoepfner R (1971) The analysis of intelligence. McGraw-Hill, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Henley NM (1969) A psychological study of the semantics of animal terms. J Verb Learn Verb Behav 8: 176–184

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Horn JL (1968) Organization of abilities and the development of intelligence. Psychol Rev 75: 242–259

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Humphreys LB (1979) The construct of general intelligence. Intelligence 3: 105–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hunt EB (1974) Quote the raven? Nevermore!In: Gregg LW (ed) Knowledge and cognition.Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 129–158

    Google Scholar 

  • Hunt EB (1978) Mechanics of verbal ability.Psychol Rev 85: 109–130

    Google Scholar 

  • Hunt EB, Lunneborg C, Lewis J (1975) What does it mean to be high verbal? Cognit Psychol 7: 194–227

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jensen AR (1979) g: Outmoded theory or unconquered frontier? Creat Sci Technol 2:16–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Jensen AR (1982) The chronometry of intelligence. In: Sternberg RJ (ed) Advances in the psychology of human intelligence, vol 1. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Keating DP, Bobbitt BL (1978) Individual and developmental differences in cognitive-processing components of mental ability. Child Dev 49: 155–167

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kruskal JB (1964a) Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis. Psychometrika 29:1–27

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kruskal JB (1964b) Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: a numerical method. Psychometrika 29:28–42

    Google Scholar 

  • Levi EH (1974) An introduction to legal reasoning. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Luce RD (1959) Individual choice behavior.Wiley, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Lunzer EA (1965) Problems of formal reasoning in test situations.In:Mussen PH (ed)European research in cognitive development.Monogr Soc Res Child Dev 30:19–46

    Google Scholar 

  • McNemar Q (1964) Lost: our intelligence? Why? Am Psychol 19: 871–882

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mulholland TM, Pellegrino JW, Glaser R (1980) Components of geometric analogy solution.Cognit Psychol 12: 252–284

    Google Scholar 

  • Newell A, Simon HA (1972) Human problem solving. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Oppenheimer JR (1956) Analogy in science. Am Psychol 11: 127–135

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pachella RG (1974) The interpretation of reaction time in information processing research. In: Kantowitz B (ed) Human information processing: tutorials in performance and cognition. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 41–82

    Google Scholar 

  • Pellegrino JW, Glaser R (1980) Components of inductive reasoning. In: Snow RE, Federico P-A, Montague W (eds) Aptitude, learning, and instruction: cognitive process analyses of aptitude (vol 1 ) Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 177–218

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget J (1972) The psychology of intelligence. Littlefield Adams, Totowa NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Piaget J, Montangero J, Billeter J (1977) Les correlats. L’abstraction réfléchissante. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Resnick LB, Glaser R (1976) Problem solving and intelligence. In: Resnick LB (ed) The nature of intelligence. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 205–230

    Google Scholar 

  • Rips L, Shoben E, Smith E (1973) Semantic distance and the verification of semantic relations. J Verb Learn Verb Behav 12: 1–20

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rumelhart DE, Abrahamson AA (1973) A model for analogical reasoning. Cognit Psychol 5: 1–28

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shepard RN (1962a) The analysis of proximities: multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. I. Psychometrika 27:125–140

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shepard RN (1962 b) The analysis of proximities: multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. II. Psychometrika 27:219–246

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shepard RN (1974) Representation of structure in similarity data: problems and prospects. Psychometrika 39: 373–421

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Simon HA (1976) Identifying basic abilities underlying intelligent performance of complex tasks. In: Resnick L (ed) The nature of intelligence. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 65–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Snow RE (1979) Theory and method for research on aptitude processes. In: Sternberg RJ, Detterman DK (eds) Human intelligence: perspectives on its theory and measurement. Ablex, Norwood NJ, pp 105–138

    Google Scholar 

  • Spearman C (1904) General intelligence, objectively determined and measured. Am J Psychol 15: 201–293

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spearman C (1927) The abilities of man. Macmillan, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1977a) Component processes in analogical reasoning. Psychol Rev 84:353–378

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ ( 1977 b) Intelligence, information processing, and analogical reasoning: the componentiàl analysis of human abilities. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ ( 1978 a) Componential investigations of human intelligence. In: Lesgold A, Pellegrino J, Fokkema S, Glaser R (eds) Cognitive psychology and instruction. Plenum, New York, pp 277–298

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1978b) Isolating the components of intelligence. Intelligence 2:117–128

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1979a) Developmental patterns in the encoding and combinaton of logical connectives. J Exp Child Psychol 28:469–498

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1979b) The nature of mental abilities. Am Psychol 34:214–230

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1980a) The development of linear syllogistic reasoning. J Exp Child Psychol 29:340–356

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1980b) Factor theories of intelligence are all right almost. Educ Res 9:6–13, 18

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1980c) Representation and process in linear syllogistic reasoning. J Exp Psychol[Gen] 109:119–159

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1980d) Sketch of a componential subtheory of human intelligence. Behav Brain Sci 3: 573–584

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1981a) Intelligence and nonentrenchment. J Educ Psychol 73: 1–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (1981b) Toward a unified componential theory of human intelligence: I. Fluid abilities. In: Friedman M, Das J, O’Connor N (eds) Intelligence and learning. Plenum, New York, pp 327–344

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (to be published a) Instrumental and componential approaches to the training of intelligence. In: Chipman S, Segal J, Glaser R (eds) Thinking and learning skills: Current research and open questions (vol 1). Erlbaum, Hillsdale New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ (to be published b) Reasoning, problem solving, and intelligence. In: Sternberg RJ (ed) Handbook of human intelligence. Cambridge University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Gardner MK (1980) Unities in inductive reasoning. NR150-412 ONR technol report 18. Department of Psychology Yale University, New Haven

    Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Nigro G (1980) Developmental patterns in the solution of verbal analogies. Child Dev 51: 27–38

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Rifkin B (1979) The development of analogical reasoning processes. J Exp Child Psychol 27: 195–232

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Tulving E (1977) The measurement of subjective organization in free recall. Psychol Bull 84: 539–556

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Conway BE, Ketron JL, Bernstein M (1981) People’s conceptions of intelligence. J Personality and Soc Psychol: Attitudes and Social Cognition 41: 37–55

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sternberg RJ, Ketron JL, Powell JS (1982) Componential approaches to the training of intelligent performance. In: Detterman DK, Sternberg RJ (eds) How and how much can intelligence be increased? Ablex Norwood, New Jersey

    Google Scholar 

  • Stevens SS (1951) Mathematics, measurement and psychophysics. In: Stevens SS (ed) Handbook of experimental psychology. Wiley, New York, pp 1–49

    Google Scholar 

  • Thurstone LL (1938) Primary mental abilities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Thurstone LL (1947) Multiple factor analysis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Vernon PE (1971) The structure of human abilities.Methuen, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Zigler E (1971) The retarded child as a whole person. In: Adams HE, Boardman III WK (eds) Advances in experimental clinical psychology, vol 1. Pergamon Press, New York,pp 47–121

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. R. J. Sternberg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. M. K. Gardner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill London, SE5 8AF, Great Britain

    Hans J. Eysenck

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1982 Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Sternberg, R.J., Gardner, M.K. (1982). A Componential Interpretation of the General Factor in Human Intelligence. In: Eysenck, H.J. (eds) A Model for Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68664-1_8

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68664-1_8

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-68666-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-68664-1

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation