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General intelligence refers to a broad mental ability that influences performance across cognitive tasks. It can be understood as the G factor identified by Spearman through factor analysis, which showed that performance on different cognitive tests is positively correlated. General intelligence involves factors like fluid reasoning, working memory, quantitative reasoning, and visual-spatial processing. It is typically measured using intelligence tests that provide an overall IQ score intended to represent an individual's general cognitive abilities.

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General Intelligence - Cluster 1

General intelligence refers to a broad mental ability that influences performance across cognitive tasks. It can be understood as the G factor identified by Spearman through factor analysis, which showed that performance on different cognitive tests is positively correlated. General intelligence involves factors like fluid reasoning, working memory, quantitative reasoning, and visual-spatial processing. It is typically measured using intelligence tests that provide an overall IQ score intended to represent an individual's general cognitive abilities.

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“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without

wings”
-Salvador Dali
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

Prepared by: Jeanette B. Antonio


What is Intelligence?

Higher level abilities. The ability to learn, emotional


knowledge, creativity, and adaption to meet the
demands of the environment effectively.
General Intelligence
• Is known as the G factor, which refers to
a general ability, that according to
Spearman, underlies multiple specific
skills, including verbal, spatial,
numerical, and mechanical.

• Refers to the existence of a broad mental


capacity that influences performance on
cognitive ability measures. Other terms
such as intelligence, IQ, general cognitive
ability, and general mental ability are also
used interchangeably to mean the same
thing as general intelligence
Spearman's Theory of General Intelligence

• Psychologist Charles Spearman helped develop a statistical


technique known as factor analysis, which allows
researchers to use a number of different test items to
measure common abilities

• Describe first the existence of general intelligence in 1904.


G FACTOR
This relates to a person's abilities to
interpret and manipulate visual information,
VISUAL-SPATIAL PROCESSING such as putting together puzzles and
copying complex shapes.

QUANTITATIVE REASONING This is an individual's capacity to solve


problems that involve numbers.

This is a person's general understanding of a


KNOWLEDGE wide range of topics and can be equated with
crystallized intelligence

This involves the ability to think flexibly and solve


FLUID REASONING problems

This involves the use of short-term memory such as


WORKING MEMORY being able to repeat a list of items.
How General Intelligence Is Measured
Many modern intelligence tests measure some of the cognitive factors
that are thought to make up general intelligence. Such tests propose that
intelligence can be measured and expressed by a single number.

How General Intelligence Is Measured


Reference:

▪ Anastasi, A. (1984). 7. Aptitude and Achievement


Tests: The Curious Case of the Indestructible
Strawperson

▪ Glanagan DP, Dixon SG. The Cattell-


Horn-Carroll theory of cognitive abilities.
Encyclopedia Spec Educ. 2014.
doi:10.1002/9781118660584.ese0431
THANK YOU

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