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BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

PREDICTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

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Investigators detected a tendency for those who excelled in one of Thurstone’s seven primary mental abilities to also demonstrate high levels of competence in other abilities. This provided some evidence of
A
predictive validity.
B
general intelligence.
C
emotional intelligence.
D
neural plasticity.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -General intelligence, also known as g factor, refers to the existence of a broad mental capacity that influences performance on cognitive ability measures.

Detailed explanation-2: -The seven primary mental abilities in Thurstone’s model were verbal comprehension, word fluency, number facility, spatial visualization, associative memory, perceptual speed and reasoning.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Binet-Simon test was first published in 1905. Lewis Terman (1877-1956) standardized the Simon-Binet test on a large sample of U.S. children, creating the Stanford-Binet test of intelligence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Binet and Simon created a test designed to predict which children would succeed and which ones would have difficulty in school. Binet and Simon conceptualized the idea of mental age, the cognitive abilities that should correspond to a particular age.

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