Investigators detected a tendency for those who excelled in one of Thurstones seven primary mental abilities to also demonstrate high levels of competence in other abilities. This provided some evidence of

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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: -Psychologist Louis L. Thurstone (1887–1955) focused on seven primary mental abilities rather than a single, general ability.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spearman believed that General Intelligence was represented as an intelligence factor underlying specific mental abilities, which he referred to as “g-factor”. He explained that this g factor was responsible for a person’s overall performance on mental ability tests.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -An aptitude test is designed to assess what a person is capable of doing or to predict what a person is able to learn or do given the right education and instruction.

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