On the special relationship between fluid and general intelligence: New evidence obtained by considering the position effect

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1249-1254

  Schweizer, Karl ^a   Troche, Stefan J ^b   Rammsayer, Thomas H ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor model; Fluid intelligence; General intelligence; Position effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953164309     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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