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On intelligence I: Broad ability factors in 15‐year‐old children and Cattell's theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence
Author(s) -
UNDHEIM JOHAN OLAV
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1981.tb00391.x
Subject(s) - psychology , fluid and crystallized intelligence , fluid intelligence , factor (programming language) , interpretation (philosophy) , test (biology) , g factor , fluency , developmental psychology , intelligence quotient , cognitive psychology , sample (material) , wechsler adult intelligence scale , cognition , neuroscience , mathematics education , working memory , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , biology , computer science , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , magnetic field
A simple‐structure factor analysis of test data from a sample of 148 fifteen‐year‐old children in Norway was carried out. Broad factors were interpreted to represent visualization, speediness, and fluency, as well as fluid and crystallized intelligence. The results are consistent with the factor distinctions as hypothesized by Cattell, but analyses of the developmental differentiation of fluid and crystallized intelligence raise some doubts about Cattell's interpretation of these dimensions.