An unassailable defense of g but a siren-song for theories of intelligence

Psycoloquy

Volumn 11, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Anderson, Mike ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Behavior genetics; Cognitive modelling; Evoked potentials; Evolutionary psychology; Factor analysis; g factor; Heritability; Individual differences; Intelligence; IQ; Neurometrics; Psychometrics; Psychophyiology; Skills; Spearman; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005350782     PISSN: 10550143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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