General intelligence factor

The general intelligence factor (abbreviated g) is a widely accepted but controversial construct used in the field of psychology (see also psychometrics) to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligence tests. The phrase "g theory" refers to hypotheses and results regarding g's biological nature, stability/malleability, relevance to real-world tasks, and other inquiries.

References

• Brand, C. (1996) The g Factor: General Intelligence and Its Implications. (depublished) . ISBN 0471960705
• Bringsjord, S. (2000) In light of artificial intelligence, the science of mental ability is either silly or pointless. Psycoloquy: 11,#44. http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000044/
• Carroll, J.B. (1993) Human Cognitive Abilities. Cambridge University Press.
• Gardner, H. The relationship between early giftedness and later achievement. In Ciba Foundation. The origins and development of high ability. Ciba Foundation Symposium, 178 (pp. 175-186) 1993: Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons.
• Jensen, R.A. (1998) The g Factor. Praeger, Connecticut, USA.
• Kitcher, P. (1985) Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Matzel, L.D., Han, Y.R., Grossman, H., Karnik, M.S., Patel, D., Scott, N., Specht, S.M., Gandhi, C.C. (2003) Individual differences in the expression of a "general" learning ability in mice. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(16):6423-33.
• Posthuma, D., De Geus, E.J., Baare, W.F., Hulshoff Pol, H.E., Kahn, R.S., Boomsma, D.I. (2002) The association between brain volume and intelligence is of genetic origin. Nature Neuroscience, 5(2):83-4.
• Thompson, P.M. et al. (2001). Genetic influences on brain structure. Nature Neuroscience, 4(12):1253-1258.

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• The g Factor - Jensen's book