ArticleJournal of Intelligence2022
The Search for the Elusive Basic Processes Underlying Human Intelligence: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Article in Journal of Intelligence, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Evolution of Intelligence: Analysis of the Journal of Intelligence and Intelligence.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Online Assessment of Morphological Awareness in Grades 2-4: Its Development and Relation to Reading Comprehension.Journal of Intelligence · 2022Article
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Abstract
This article discusses the issues of the basic processes underlying intelligence, considering both historical and contemporary perspectives. The attempt to elucidate basic processes has had, at best, mixed success. There are some problems with pinpointing the underlying basic processes of intelligence, both in theory and as tested, such as what constitutes a basic process, what constitutes intelligence, and whether the processes, basic or not, are the same across time and space (cultural contexts). Nevertheless, the search for basic processes has elucidated phenomena of intelligence that the field would have been hard-pressed to elucidate in any other way. Intelligence cannot be fully understood through any one conceptual or methodological approach. A comprehensive understanding of intelligence requires the converging operations of a variety of approaches to it.
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