- General factor (Psychology), Intellect, Nature and nurture, Philosophy & theory of psychology
Arthur Jensen has systematically developed a seminal concept first discovered by Charles Spearman in the 1920s: individual and group differences in mental ability exist, and these differences can be measured by a single, general factor, g.
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- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 656
- Publisher
- Praeger, Praeger Publishers
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780275961039
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“In the 2,000-year prehistory of psychology, which was dominated by Platonic philosophy and Christian theology, the cognitive aspect of mind was identified with the soul, and conceived of as a perfect, immaterial, universal attribute of humans.”
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