On the interpretation of the CHC factor Gc

Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 292-302

  Kan, Kees Jan ^a   Kievit, Rogier A ^a   Dolan, Conor ^a   der Maas, Han van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cattell Horn Carroll model; Fluid and crystallized intelligence; Gf Gc theory; Investment theory; Latent variable modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052038782     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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