Raven's is not a pure measure of general intelligence: Implications for g factor theory and the brief measurement of g

Intelligence

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 71-79

  Gignac, Gilles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fluid intelligence; General intelligence; Raven's Progressive Matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939494825     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2015.07.006     Document Type: Article

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