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An Implicit Theory of Intelligence‐Related Mental Activities
Author(s) -
Hoskens Machteld,
Boeck Paul
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00932.x
Subject(s) - property (philosophy) , psychology , cognitive psychology , task (project management) , cognition , human intelligence , creativity , mental operations , information processing , cognitive science , social psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , management , neuroscience , economics
Mental act verbs are used to study implicit theories of intelligence as represented by mental activities. First, the multidimensional structure of the verbs was studied using a sorting task. The resulting structure was interpreted primarily in terms of three properties: a working property that refers to the operational aspect of information processing (and that is closely related to depth of a cognitive activity), a judgment property, and a creativity property. Second, the notion of intelligence was projected onto the structure, rating the verbs to determine how much intelligence they represented. We discovered that mental activities scoring high on intelligence were related primarily to the working property and to in‐depth processing.