Description |
Electronic book |
|
ix, 819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Part I. Introduction to the Survey: 1. The study of cognitive abilities -- 2. Historical foundations of the study of cognitive abilities -- 3. Survey and analysis of correlational and factor-analytic research on cognitive abilities: methodology -- 4. Survey and analysis of correlational and factor-analytic research on cognitive abilities: overview of outcomes -- Part II. The Identification and Description of Cognitive Abilities: 5. Abilities in the Domain of language -- 6. Abilities in the Domain of reasoning -- 7. Abilities in the Domain of memory and learning -- 8. Abilities in the Domain of visual perception -- 9. Abilities in the Domain of auditory reception -- 10. Abilities in the Domain of idea production -- 11. Abilities in the Domain of cognitive speed -- 12. Abilities in the Domain of knowledge and achievement -- 13. Psychomotor abilities -- 14. Miscellaneous domains of ability and personal characteristics -- 15. Higher-order factors of cognitive ability -- Part III. Issues: 16. A theory of cognitive abilities: the three-stratum theory -- 17. Issue about abilities: nature and nurture and others -- 18. Implications and recommendations -- References and list of datasets -- Appendices -- Name index -- Subject index |
Summary |
This book surveys and summarizes the results of more than seventy years of investigation, by factor analysis, of a variety of cognitive abilities, with particular attention to language, thinking, memory, visual and auditory perception, creativity and the production of ideas, and the speed and accuracy of mental processing. The author describes his detailed findings resulting from reanalysis of more than 460 data sets from the factor-analytic literature, followed by a presentation of a hierarchical, three-stratum theory of cognitive ability and its implications for further research |
Analysis |
Humans Cognition |
|
Humans Cognition |
Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 715-789) and indexes |
Notes |
System requirements for accompanying computer disks: 2.993 megabytes in IBM ASCII format |
Subject |
Cognition.
|
|
Factor analysis.
|
|
Psychology -- Mathematical models.
|
|
Cognition.
|
|
Factor Analysis, Statistical.
|
|
Models, Psychological.
|
LC no. |
92012453 |
ISBN |
0521382750 (paperback) |
|
0521387124 (cover) |
|