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According to Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SI) theory (1955), an individual's performance on intelligence tests can be traced back to the underlying mental abilities or factors of intelligence. SI theory comprises up to 180 different intellectual abilities organized along three dimensions: operations, content, and products.
The Nature of Human Intelligence is a 1967 book by the American psychologist J. P. Guilford on human intelligence. It is an elaboration of Guilford's Structure of Intellect theory, where intelligence is a three-dimensional taxonomy of 120 elements. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Guilford's Structure of Intellect. According to J. P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (SI) theory, an individual's performance on intelligence tests can be traced back to the underlying mental abilities or factors of intelligence. SI theory comprises multiple intellectual abilities organized along three dimensions—Operations, Content, and ...
Mary Nacol Meeker (1921–2003), was an American educational psychologist and entrepreneur.She is best known for her applying J. P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect theory of human intelligence to the field of education.
[31] [32] An intelligence theory that has drawn considerable attention is Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC), which is grounded in extensive factor analytic research from cognitive ability test databases, as well as studies of development and heritability. CHC is actually an amalgam of Cattell-Horn Gf-Gc theory and Carroll's three-tier model.
J. P. Guilford was the first researcher to approach the problem of social intelligence from the measurement viewpoint. [dubious – discuss] He developed a test of social intelligence, and suggested that the social intelligence is a unit that does not depend on common intellectual factor, but relates to the comprehension of behavioral information.
Dynamic assessment has been further elaborated in the work of Ann Brown, and John D. Bransford and in theories of multiple intelligences authored by Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg. [70] [71] J.P. Guilford's Structure of Intellect (1967) model of intelligence used three dimensions, which, when combined, yielded a total of 120 types of ...
Convergent thinking is a term coined by Joy Paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking. It generally means the ability to give the "correct" answer to questions that do not require novel ideas, for instance on standardized multiple-choice tests for intelligence.